Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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.

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

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

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Jessel, George

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

10.

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

Lovell, Jim

11.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

12.

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

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

Hays, Brian

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Burke, Edmund

20.

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

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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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

28.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Robbins, Anthony

31.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

32.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

33.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

34.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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.

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

Petty, Richard

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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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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

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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