Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Petty, Richard

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.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

10.

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

Burke, Edmund

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Ovid

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

Euripides

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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

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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wickman, Bob

34.

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

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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

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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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