Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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

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

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

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

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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

Ruth, Babe

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Keller, Helen

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Jessel, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bradley, Tom

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Ovid

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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

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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