Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Petty, Richard

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

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

Strauss, Robert

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

I will hold.

Motto

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

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lovell, Jim

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jessel, George

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

Lucretius

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Bible

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Christopher Reeve

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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