Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Einstein, Albert

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

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Bible

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

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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You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

11.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

13.

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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

18.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

19.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

21.

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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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Euripides

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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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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

31.

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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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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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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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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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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

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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.