Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

- Eggleston, Edward

Best Quotes about Perseverance

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Samuel Johnson

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.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

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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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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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

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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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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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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

21.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ruth, Babe

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If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Ovid

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Euripides

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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.

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

41.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

43.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Christopher Reeve

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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

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

Howard, Curly

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

Hays, Brian