Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Bible

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

Collier, Jeremy

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

10.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

11.

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

Ovid

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

Samuel Johnson

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

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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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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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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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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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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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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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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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 am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Euripides

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

49.

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

Hays, Brian

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston