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

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

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

Bible

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

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

10.

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

Samuel Johnson

11.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

12.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

15.

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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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 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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Hays, Brian

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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

Ruth, Babe

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Ruth, Babe

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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