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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

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

Petty, Richard

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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.

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

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

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Lovell, Jim

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

15.

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

Howard, Curly

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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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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

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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Hays, Brian

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

40.

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

41.

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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.