Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ovid

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

Euripides

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

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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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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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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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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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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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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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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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Lovell, Jim

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

34.

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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Howard, Curly

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Keller, Helen

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jessel, George

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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