Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Jessel, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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

Wickman, Bob

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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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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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Bradley, Tom

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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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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Robbins, Anthony