Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Ruth, Babe

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.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Keller, Helen

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

14.

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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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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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

17.

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

18.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

24.

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

Burke, Edmund

25.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

26.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Samuel Johnson

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

32.

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

33.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

34.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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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

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

43.

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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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.

45.

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

Hilton, Conrad

46.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Elliott, Walter

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