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

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

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

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

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

Christopher Reeve

10.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

11.

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

12.

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Bible

15.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

16.

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.

17.

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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

19.

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

20.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

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

Bible

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

Howard, Curly

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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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

28.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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

Euripides

34.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

39.

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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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jessel, George

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark