Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Jessel, George

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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.

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

Askenberg, J.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

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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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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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

20.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

21.

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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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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

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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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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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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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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lucretius

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.