Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

I am confident. I never give up.

- Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lucretius

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

Askenberg, J.

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

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Ovid

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

11.

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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Wickman, Bob

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Hays, Brian

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bradley, Tom

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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Elliott, Walter

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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.

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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

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

Christopher Reeve

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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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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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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

36.

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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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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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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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

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

Lovell, Jim

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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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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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.