Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

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

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

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

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Einstein, Albert

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

10.

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

11.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

12.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

15.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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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

18.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Hays, Brian

20.

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

21.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

28.

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

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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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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

38.

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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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

48.

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

Howard, Curly

49.

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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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