Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

All great achievements require time.

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Ovid

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

Burke, Edmund

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

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

Jessel, George

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

10.

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

11.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

12.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

13.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

14.

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

15.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

16.

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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

20.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

21.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

22.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

25.

I will hold.

Motto

26.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

27.

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

Bible

28.

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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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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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

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

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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.

39.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Petty, Richard