Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lucretius

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Burke, Edmund

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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

10.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

11.

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

Howard, Curly

12.

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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Chesterfield, Lord

17.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

21.

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

Jessel, George

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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Samuel Johnson

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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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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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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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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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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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

36.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

39.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

40.

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

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

Ovid

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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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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Lovell, Jim