Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Ruth, Babe

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Howard, Curly

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Keller, Helen

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Lovell, Jim

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

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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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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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