Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

- Hayes, Woody

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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

Robbins, Anthony

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

10.

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

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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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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.

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Euripides

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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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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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.

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

Keller, Helen

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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Bible

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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Lucretius

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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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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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 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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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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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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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