Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Nicklaus, Jack

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

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

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

10.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

11.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

12.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

13.

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

14.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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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

18.

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

19.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

23.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

26.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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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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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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

30.

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

31.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

32.

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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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

42.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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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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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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I will hold.

Motto

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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.