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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Petty, Richard

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

10.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

11.

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

Herhiser, Orel

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I will hold.

Motto

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

Ovid

14.

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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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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.

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

32.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

33.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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

Hays, Brian

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ruth, Babe

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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

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

Jessel, George

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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

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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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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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