Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Perseverance

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

10.

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.

11.

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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

14.

I will hold.

Motto

15.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Elliott, Walter

17.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

18.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

19.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

20.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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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

25.

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

Wickman, Bob

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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

27.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

28.

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

Askenberg, J.

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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

30.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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

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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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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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.

39.

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.

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

43.

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

Hays, Brian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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