Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Hays, Brian

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Bible

12.

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

Howard, Curly

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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.

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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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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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