Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

- Livy, Titus

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lucretius

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

Ross, Percy

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Elliott, Walter

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

10.

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

Lovell, Jim

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

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

13.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

18.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

19.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

28.

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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

30.

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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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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

Bible

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

39.

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

Wickman, Bob

40.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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

42.

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.

43.

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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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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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

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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

47.

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

Bradley, Tom

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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