Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

- Engstrom, Ted W.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

15.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

18.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

31.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

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If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

44.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.