Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

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

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

Bible

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

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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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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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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

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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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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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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.

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Hays, Brian

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Euripides

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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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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

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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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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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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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

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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

Elliott, Walter