Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

All great achievements require time.

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

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.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

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

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Hays, Brian

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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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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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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

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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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

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If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Bradley, Tom

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.