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

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Christopher Reeve

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

13.

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

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hays, Brian

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.