Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Ruth, Babe

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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

10.

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Euripides

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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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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

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

27.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Lovell, Jim

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

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

Jessel, George

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Howard, Curly

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Bradley, Tom

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

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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

44.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard