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

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Bible

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

Jessel, George

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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

16.

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

Keller, Helen

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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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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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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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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

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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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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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

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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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.