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

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

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Howard, Curly

10.

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

11.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

19.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

20.

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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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

24.

I will hold.

Motto

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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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

35.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

36.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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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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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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

40.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

41.

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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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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

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

Euripides

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