Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hays, Brian

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lovell, Jim

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.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

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

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

10.

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

11.

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

Elliott, Walter

12.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

17.

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

18.

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

Ovid

19.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

21.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

22.

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

23.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Jessel, George

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

33.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

34.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

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

Howard, Curly

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Ruth, Babe

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez