Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bradley, Tom

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

10.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

12.

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 do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Lucretius

15.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

16.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

18.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

19.

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

20.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

23.

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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I will hold.

Motto

25.

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

26.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

27.

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

28.

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

Herhiser, Orel

29.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Ovid

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

Elliott, Walter

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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.

43.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

44.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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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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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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

48.

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

Jessel, George

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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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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim