Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

- Livy, Titus

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

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

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Lucretius

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Bible

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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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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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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Elliott, Walter

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

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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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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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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Howard, Curly

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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.