Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Bible

10.

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

Howard, Curly

11.

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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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

14.

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.

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

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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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

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

Jessel, George

27.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

Collier, Jeremy

29.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

30.

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

Samuel Johnson

31.

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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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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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.

34.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

36.

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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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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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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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

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

Hays, Brian

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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DeVos, Richard M.

44.

I will hold.

Motto

45.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Bible

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

Ruth, Babe

49.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

50.

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