Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Bradley, Tom

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

I will hold.

Motto

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Lucretius

10.

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

Wickman, Bob

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hays, Brian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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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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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

33.

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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Ruth, Babe

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

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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

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Samuel Johnson