Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

- Hayes, Woody

Best Quotes about Perseverance

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Howard, Curly

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

Hill, Napoleon

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

10.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

14.

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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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

16.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

17.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

18.

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

19.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

20.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

21.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

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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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

24.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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.

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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.

33.

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

Bible

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

Euripides

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

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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

44.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

46.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

48.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

50.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.