Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

It's always too soon to quit.

- Scoates, David T.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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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.

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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

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

Hays, Brian

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

33.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

39.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Howard, Curly

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

Jessel, George

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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

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

44.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha