Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Askenberg, J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Collier, Jeremy

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

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

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Askenberg, J.

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

15.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

18.

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

Hays, Brian

19.

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

20.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Ovid

27.

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

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Bible

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

46.

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

47.

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

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius