Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Howard, Curly

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Jessel, George

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

14.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

15.

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

Askenberg, J.

18.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

19.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

20.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

21.

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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Schwarzenegger, Arnold

23.

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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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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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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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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

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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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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

30.

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

Bradley, Tom

31.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

36.

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

Ross, Percy

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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

38.

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

39.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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

41.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

44.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

48.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

49.

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.

50.

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