Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Churchill, Winston

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Hays, Brian

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

19.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

21.

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

Ruth, Babe

22.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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.

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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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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Einstein, Albert

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

34.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

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

Ruth, Babe

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Herhiser, Orel

48.

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

49.

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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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