Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

To be somebody you must last.

- Gordon, Ruth

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

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

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

11.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

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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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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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I will hold.

Motto

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Askenberg, J.

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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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The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Jessel, George

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Lucretius

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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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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.

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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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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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