Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Ovid

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Hays, Brian

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

Einstein, Albert

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

10.

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.

11.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Ruth, Babe

16.

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

17.

I will hold.

Motto

18.

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

19.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

20.

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

21.

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 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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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

24.

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

Keller, Helen

25.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

28.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

29.

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

Ruth, Babe

30.

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

31.

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Osler, Sir William

33.

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

34.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

35.

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

36.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

37.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

38.

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.

39.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

42.

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

Lucretius

43.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

44.

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

45.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

46.

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

47.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

48.

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

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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

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

Burke, Edmund