Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Samuel Johnson

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Churchill, Winston

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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.

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

Jessel, George

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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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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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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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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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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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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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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 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

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

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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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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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

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Robbins, Anthony