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

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

Askenberg, J.

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

11.

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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

14.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

25.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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

Billings, Josh

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

31.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

36.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Ovid

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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

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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