Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Perseverance

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hilton, Conrad

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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

10.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

14.

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.

15.

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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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.

17.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

18.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

19.

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

Jessel, George

20.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

26.

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

Robbins, Anthony

27.

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

28.

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

Ruth, Babe

29.

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

Petty, Richard

30.

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

Christopher Reeve

31.

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

32.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

33.

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

Ruth, Babe

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lucretius

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

Bible

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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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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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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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I will hold.

Motto

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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