Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

18.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Howard, Curly

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Bradley, Tom

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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Lovell, Jim

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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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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

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Collier, Jeremy

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Bible

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.