Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Perseverance

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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

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

Euripides

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Wickman, Bob

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Askenberg, J.

10.

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

Hays, Brian

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

20.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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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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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

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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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.

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

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I will hold.

Motto

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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Hilton, Conrad

35.

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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If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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

Lovell, Jim

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

39.

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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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