Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Askenberg, J.

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

Elliott, Walter

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

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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

Wickman, Bob

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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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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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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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

Burke, Edmund

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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

33.

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

34.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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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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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.

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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

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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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

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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.