Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Never despair, keep pushing on!

- Lipton, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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.

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

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

10.

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

11.

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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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

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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.

14.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

16.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

18.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Bradley, Tom

21.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

25.

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

26.

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

Hays, Brian

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

33.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Bible

36.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

37.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

38.

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

Hays, Brian

39.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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I will hold.

Motto

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

Euripides

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruth, Babe

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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.

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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

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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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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