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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

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

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

Billings, Josh

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

13.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

Corbett, James J.

15.

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

Ruth, Babe

16.

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

17.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

18.

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

Lovell, Jim

19.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

24.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

25.

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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

27.

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.

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

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

Wickman, Bob

31.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

32.

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

33.

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

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.

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

Burke, Edmund

37.

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

38.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

42.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

43.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Bradley, Tom

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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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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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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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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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There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

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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