Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hays, Brian

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Keller, Helen

11.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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

Howard, Curly

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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

21.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

28.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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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.

31.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

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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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Epictetus

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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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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bradley, Tom

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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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You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.