Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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]

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

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.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Askenberg, J.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Bible

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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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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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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Elliott, Walter

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lovell, Jim

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Wickman, Bob

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

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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.

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Howard, Curly

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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