Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

- Riley, James Whitcomb

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bradley, Tom

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

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

Lovell, Jim

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

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

10.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

11.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Jessel, George

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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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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nixon, Richard M.

22.

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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I will hold.

Motto

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

Elliott, Walter

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

26.

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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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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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

34.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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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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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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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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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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.