Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Ruth, Babe

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.

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

Lucretius

10.

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.

11.

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

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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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

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Bradley, Tom

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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

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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

32.

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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

34.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

35.

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

Hilton, Conrad

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

37.

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

Wickman, Bob

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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.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Askenberg, J.

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

Jessel, George

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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I will hold.

Motto

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Euripides

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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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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