Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Never despair, keep pushing on!

- Lipton, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

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.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

10.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

11.

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

Hays, Brian

12.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

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

Hays, Brian

16.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

17.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

18.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

19.

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

Askenberg, J.

20.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

22.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Bible

26.

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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If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

28.

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.

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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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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jessel, George

33.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

38.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

39.

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

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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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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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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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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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

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.