Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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.

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

Petty, Richard

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.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Keller, Helen

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wickman, Bob

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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

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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Lovell, Jim

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von