Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Burke, Edmund

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 always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

10.

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.

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Keller, Helen

13.

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 helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

17.

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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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bradley, Tom

24.

I will hold.

Motto

25.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

26.

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

Bible

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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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

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

38.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

39.

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

Howard, Curly

40.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hays, Brian

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

44.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

45.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Jessel, George