Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Samuel Johnson

I will hold.

Motto

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Jessel, George

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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.

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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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

12.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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

Wickman, Bob

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Bible

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Howard, Curly

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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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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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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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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

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Einstein, Albert

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