Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Bradley, Tom

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

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

10.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Ruth, Babe

16.

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

17.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

18.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

19.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

20.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

22.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

30.

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

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

Lucretius

32.

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

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The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Euripides

37.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

39.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

40.

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

41.

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

Jessel, George

42.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

43.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

46.

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

49.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

50.

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