Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

11.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

12.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

Jessel, George

16.

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

17.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

18.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

19.

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

Corbett, James J.

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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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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.

23.

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

24.

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

Christopher Reeve

25.

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

26.

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

27.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Samuel Johnson

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

35.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

36.

I will hold.

Motto

37.

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

Askenberg, J.

38.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

39.

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

40.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

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

Bible

42.

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

Wickman, Bob

43.

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

Bradley, Tom

44.

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

45.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

46.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

47.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

49.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

50.

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

Ruth, Babe