Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

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

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hays, Brian

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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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

22.

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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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

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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

26.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Bradley, Tom

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Lucretius

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

Ovid

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

47.

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

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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