Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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

Ovid

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

11.

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

12.

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

13.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Hays, Brian

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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

16.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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

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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.

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

30.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lucretius

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Wickman, Bob

43.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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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