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

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

Elliott, Walter

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

I will hold.

Motto

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

13.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Bradley, Tom

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Bible

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

Euripides

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Howard, Curly

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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

39.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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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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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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