Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bible

Sorbo, Kevin

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

Ruth, Babe

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

10.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

11.

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

12.

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

13.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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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

15.

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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You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

23.

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

Lucretius

24.

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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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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

28.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

29.

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

Elliott, Walter

31.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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

Collier, Jeremy

35.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

40.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

41.

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

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

46.

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

47.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

48.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

49.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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