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

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

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.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

I will hold.

Motto

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

Lovell, Jim

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

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

Jessel, George

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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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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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

12.

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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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

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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.

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Euripides

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

Keller, Helen

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

Einstein, Albert

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Collier, Jeremy

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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