Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

A jug fills drop by drop.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Petty, Richard

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hays, Brian

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

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

10.

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

Ruth, Babe

11.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

16.

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

Wickman, Bob

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

18.

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

19.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

20.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

21.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

28.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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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

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

35.

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

Ovid

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

39.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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

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

Howard, Curly

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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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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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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber