Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Bible

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Askenberg, J.

12.

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

Lovell, Jim

13.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Hays, Brian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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

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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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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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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.

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

Bible

24.

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

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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

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

31.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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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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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

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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.

48.

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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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