Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

- O'Brien, Dan

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Osler, Sir William

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Corbett, James J.

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

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

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

10.

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

Burke, Edmund

11.

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

12.

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

Wickman, Bob

13.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Hays, Brian

16.

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

Euripides

18.

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

Bradley, Tom

19.

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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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

21.

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

22.

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

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

28.

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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

30.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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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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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

35.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

37.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Ovid

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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