Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

Jessel, George

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Petty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

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

Euripides

11.

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

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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

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

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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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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

29.

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

Ruth, Babe

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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Hays, Brian

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

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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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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 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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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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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.

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon