Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

- Hayes, Woody

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Jessel, George

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

Elliott, Walter

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

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

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

10.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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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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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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

14.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

18.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

19.

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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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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There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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

Lovell, Jim

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

27.

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

Wickman, Bob

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

29.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

30.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

31.

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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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

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

Hays, Brian

34.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

35.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Ruth, Babe

37.

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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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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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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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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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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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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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

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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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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.

50.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean