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

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

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

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

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

Hays, Brian

10.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

11.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

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

Bible

14.

I will hold.

Motto

15.

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

Ruth, Babe

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

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

Euripides

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

25.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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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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

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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

29.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

30.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Ruth, Babe

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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

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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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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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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Nicklaus, Jack