Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lovell, Jim

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.

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

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

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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 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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Ruth, Babe

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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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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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Jessel, George

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

34.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Elliott, Walter

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

39.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

40.

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

41.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan