Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Hill, Napoleon

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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.

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

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Jessel, George

15.

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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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Ross, Percy

33.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Lucretius

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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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

Samuel Johnson

41.

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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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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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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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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.