Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hilton, Conrad

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

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

Corbett, James J.

10.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

11.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

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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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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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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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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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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Petty, Richard

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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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.

48.

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

Ovid

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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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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