Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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

Lovell, Jim

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

10.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

11.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

12.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

18.

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

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Ovid

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

31.

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

Lucretius

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Keller, Helen

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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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