Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

12.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

13.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

15.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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.

18.

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

19.

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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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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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

24.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

25.

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

Bible

26.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

27.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

31.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

Herhiser, Orel

35.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

36.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

37.

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

38.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Samuel Johnson

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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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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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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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

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus