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

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

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

Lovell, Jim

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Elliott, Walter

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

10.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

12.

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

Hays, Brian

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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 am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

18.

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

Wickman, Bob

19.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

21.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Petty, Richard

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

28.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

30.

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.

31.

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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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]

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

34.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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