Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

It's always too soon to quit.

- Scoates, David T.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ruth, Babe

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

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

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

10.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

I will hold.

Motto

12.

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

Howard, Curly

13.

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.

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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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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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

17.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

18.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

19.

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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

22.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

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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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.

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

34.

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

Lucretius

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Hays, Brian

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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.

42.

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

Jessel, George

43.

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

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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

45.

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.

46.

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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.