Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruth, Babe

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.

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

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

Ovid

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

Corbett, James J.

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.

Iacocca, Lee

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

10.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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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

15.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

16.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nixon, Richard M.

23.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

24.

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

25.

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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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

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

Lucretius

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

Osler, Sir William

30.

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

31.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

32.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

33.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

42.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Bible

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

Euripides

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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

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

48.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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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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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