Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

- Riley, James Whitcomb

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Elliott, Walter

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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

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.

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

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

10.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

11.

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

Petty, Richard

12.

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

13.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

18.

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

Hays, Brian

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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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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Samuel Johnson

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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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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 failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

29.

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.

30.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Howard, Curly

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lucretius

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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