Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hays, Brian

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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

Ross, Percy

10.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

11.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

12.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

13.

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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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

17.

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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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Ovid

21.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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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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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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Euripides

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

28.

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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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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.

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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.

36.

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

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

Jessel, George

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

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

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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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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

45.

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

Lovell, Jim