Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

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

Herhiser, Orel

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

12.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Hays, Brian

18.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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.

20.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

21.

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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

25.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Samuel Johnson

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

32.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

34.

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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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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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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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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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

39.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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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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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.

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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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch