Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about 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

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

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Jessel, George

11.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

15.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

16.

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

Hays, Brian

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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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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.

20.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

21.

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

Howard, Curly

22.

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

23.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

24.

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.

25.

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

Christopher Reeve

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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

27.

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

Hays, Brian

28.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Askenberg, J.

31.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

33.

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

Petty, Richard

34.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

35.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

36.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

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

Ovid

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

Bible

44.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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.