Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Hays, Brian

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

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

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

Jessel, George

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

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

Osler, Sir William

10.

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

11.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

12.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Ruth, Babe

18.

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

19.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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

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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

39.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

42.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

43.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

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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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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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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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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid