Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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

Ovid

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.

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

Bradley, Tom

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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.

23.

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Burke, Edmund

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

28.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

Euripides

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

35.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Jessel, George

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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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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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

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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

47.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.