Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Nicklaus, Jack

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Euripides

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Hilton, Conrad

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

15.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

16.

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

17.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Bible

21.

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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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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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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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

32.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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

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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

37.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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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

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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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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

42.

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