Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Lovell, Jim

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

10.

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.

11.

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

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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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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I will hold.

Motto

15.

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

Hays, Brian

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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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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

18.

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Keller, Helen

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

25.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Euripides

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

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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

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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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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bradley, Tom

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Elliott, Walter

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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

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

Corbett, James J.

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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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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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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