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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

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

Howard, Curly

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.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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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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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

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

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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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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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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 a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Euripides

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

Lucretius

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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

Jessel, George

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

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

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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.