Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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

Jessel, George

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

11.

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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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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

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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

18.

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 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

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

Lovell, Jim

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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

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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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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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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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

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

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

Euripides

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Wickman, Bob

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

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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

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I will hold.

Motto

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

Ovid