Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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.

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

Bible

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

10.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

Askenberg, J.

12.

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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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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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

15.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

18.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

22.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

23.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

24.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

25.

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

Ovid

27.

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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

29.

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

30.

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

Hays, Brian

31.

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

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

34.

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.

35.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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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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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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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.

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

Christopher Reeve

41.

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

42.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

Howard, Curly

46.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

47.

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

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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