Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Corbett, James J.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

I will hold.

Motto

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Ross, Percy

12.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

14.

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.

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

20.

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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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.

22.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

25.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

27.

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

28.

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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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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

32.

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

Howard, Curly

33.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

34.

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 only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

36.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Burke, Edmund

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

40.

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

Billings, Josh

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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lovell, Jim

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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

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

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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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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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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