Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

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

Hays, Brian

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

Lucretius

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

10.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

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

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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

16.

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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

18.

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

Elliott, Walter

20.

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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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

24.

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

25.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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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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

29.

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

Christopher Reeve

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.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

32.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

34.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

35.

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

Ruth, Babe

37.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

38.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

39.

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

40.

I will hold.

Motto

41.

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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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

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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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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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

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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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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

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

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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