Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Petty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

10.

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

11.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

12.

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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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

15.

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

Keller, Helen

16.

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

17.

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

18.

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Elliott, Walter

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

22.

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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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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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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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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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

27.

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.

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Wickman, Bob

30.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

31.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

32.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

35.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

42.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

43.

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