Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Howard, Curly

11.

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

12.

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

Jessel, George

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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

17.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

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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

27.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

28.

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

Petty, Richard

29.

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

30.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

31.

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

Ruth, Babe

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

40.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

41.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

45.

I will hold.

Motto

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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