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

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Askenberg, J.

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

Jessel, George

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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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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

23.

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

24.

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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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

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

Howard, Curly

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Burke, Edmund

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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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 let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

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

Christopher Reeve

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Wickman, Bob

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von