Motivational Quotes

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

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

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

Howard, Curly

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

Elliott, Walter

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

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

12.

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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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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I will hold.

Motto

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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.

17.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Ovid

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hays, Brian

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

39.

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

40.

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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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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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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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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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen