Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Howard, Curly

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

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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.

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

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

Jessel, George

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

12.

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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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

20.

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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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

26.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Bible

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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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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

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

Corbett, James J.

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

33.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

34.

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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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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

38.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Hays, Brian

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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