Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

- Lyly, John

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Bible

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Nixon, Richard M.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

10.

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

11.

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

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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

13.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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

15.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

16.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

17.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

18.

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

19.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

20.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

21.

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

22.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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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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

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Ruth, Babe

31.

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

32.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

33.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

39.

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

Lovell, Jim

40.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

49.

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

Christopher Reeve

50.

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