Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Hill, Napoleon

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lucretius

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

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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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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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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Elliott, Walter

18.

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

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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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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

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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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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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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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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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

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

41.

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

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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon