Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

All great achievements require time.

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Howard, Curly

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

Samuel Johnson

12.

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

Petty, Richard

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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

14.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

15.

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

16.

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

17.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

18.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

19.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

21.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hays, Brian

27.

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

Ross, Percy

28.

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

Bradley, Tom

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

35.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

38.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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

40.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

48.

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

49.

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

50.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel