Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

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

Ovid

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

Ruth, Babe

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

10.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

11.

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

15.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

16.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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.

19.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

20.

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

21.

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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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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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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.

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

30.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruth, Babe

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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Wickman, Bob

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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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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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