Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Never, never, never, never give up.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Samuel Johnson

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.

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

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

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

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.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

10.

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

Hays, Brian

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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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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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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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 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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Howard, Curly

21.

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

Wickman, Bob

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Bible

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

28.

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

29.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

Jessel, George

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

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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

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

Ruth, Babe

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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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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