Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

- Pine, Arthur

Best Quotes about Perseverance

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

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.

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

Collier, Jeremy

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Elliott, Walter

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

11.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

13.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

16.

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

17.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

24.

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

25.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

27.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

32.

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

33.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

34.

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.

35.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

I will hold.

Motto

38.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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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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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

42.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen