Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

10.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

11.

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

20.

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.

21.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

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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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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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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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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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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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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Ovid

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

Hays, Brian

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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

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

Petty, Richard

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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark