Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Burke, Edmund

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

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

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Christopher Reeve

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

10.

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

11.

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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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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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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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

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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

30.

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

Hays, Brian

31.

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

Hays, Brian

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

33.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

44.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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

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