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

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hays, Brian

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

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

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

12.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

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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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

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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

18.

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.

19.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

20.

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

Burke, Edmund

21.

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

22.

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

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

Samuel Johnson

24.

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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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

26.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

27.

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.

28.

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

Bradley, Tom

29.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

35.

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

36.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Wickman, Bob

41.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

42.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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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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

45.

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

Bible

47.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

48.

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

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