Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Howard, Curly

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lovell, Jim

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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

20.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

30.

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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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

35.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

36.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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

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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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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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