Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

To be somebody you must last.

- Gordon, Ruth

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

I will hold.

Motto

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

Petty, Richard

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Burke, Edmund

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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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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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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

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Howard, Curly

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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