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 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

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

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

Ovid

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

Ruth, Babe

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Keller, Helen

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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 I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Jessel, George

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lucretius

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Bible

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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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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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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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

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