Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Wickman, Bob

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

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

12.

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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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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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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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

16.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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

18.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Bradley, Tom

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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

31.

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

Lucretius

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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.

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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

35.

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

Howard, Curly

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If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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

40.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward