Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

10.

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

11.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Petty, Richard

14.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

22.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

23.

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.

24.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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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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

28.

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

29.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

30.

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

Elliott, Walter

31.

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

32.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

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

Jessel, George

35.

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

Wickman, Bob

36.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

37.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bradley, Tom

40.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

44.

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

Ruth, Babe

45.

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

46.

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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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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Lincoln, Abraham