Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

13.

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

Lovell, Jim

14.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

15.

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

16.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

17.

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

18.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

19.

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

20.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

24.

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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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.

26.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

27.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

28.

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

Hays, Brian

29.

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

30.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Bible

32.

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

Lucretius

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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

34.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

36.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

38.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

39.

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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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

41.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

46.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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.

48.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

49.

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

50.

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