Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hays, Brian

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wickman, Bob

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

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ovid

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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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.

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Hays, Brian

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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Jessel, George

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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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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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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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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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

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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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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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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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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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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