Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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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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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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

15.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Bradley, Tom

18.

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

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

Burke, Edmund

21.

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

Howard, Curly

22.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

23.

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

Ross, Percy

24.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

25.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

28.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

30.

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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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

32.

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

33.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

34.

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

35.

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

Lovell, Jim

36.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

37.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

40.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

41.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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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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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

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

Ovid

46.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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

48.

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

Jessel, George

49.

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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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.