Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Hays, Brian

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

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Ross, Percy

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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

Ovid

10.

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

11.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Wickman, Bob

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

18.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

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

Hays, Brian

26.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

27.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

29.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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

33.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Askenberg, J.

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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

42.

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

Lucretius

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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 fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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