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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Euripides

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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I will hold.

Motto

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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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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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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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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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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hays, Brian

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

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

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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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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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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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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

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

Samuel Johnson

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.