Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Engstrom, Ted W.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nicklaus, Jack

I will hold.

Motto

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

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

12.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

14.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

15.

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

Hays, Brian

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Elliott, Walter

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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

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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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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

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Euripides

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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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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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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

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Keller, Helen

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

Bible

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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

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.