Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

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

Euripides

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.

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

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

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

Corbett, James J.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ruth, Babe

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Nicklaus, Jack

25.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Lucretius

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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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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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.

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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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

Howard, Curly

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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