Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Corbett, James J.

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

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

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Howard, Curly

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

Bible

11.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

12.

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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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.

14.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bible

19.

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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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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I will hold.

Motto

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

Ovid

25.

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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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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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

28.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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.

33.

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

Jessel, George

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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

Hays, Brian

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