Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Bible

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

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Lucretius

10.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

12.

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

Wickman, Bob

14.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

15.

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

16.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

19.

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

20.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

21.

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

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

Euripides

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Hays, Brian

30.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

Keller, Helen

35.

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.

36.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

40.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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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 is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

44.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

45.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

48.

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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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

50.

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

Ruth, Babe