Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lucretius

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Hays, Brian

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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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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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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lovell, Jim

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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

Collier, Jeremy

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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 can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Howard, Curly

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas