Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

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

Euripides

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

Robbins, Anthony

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

12.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hays, Brian

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

25.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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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

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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

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

Hays, Brian

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Ross, Percy

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Samuel Johnson

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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