Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Nicklaus, Jack

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Lucretius

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

Osler, Sir William

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

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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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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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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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

18.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hays, Brian

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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.

34.

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

Howard, Curly

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.