Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Herhiser, Orel

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Ross, Percy

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Bradley, Tom

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

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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

11.

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

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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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 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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

27.

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

Euripides

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

Howard, Curly

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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

32.

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.

33.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hays, Brian

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

Jessel, George

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

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

Lovell, Jim

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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