Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

- Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Petty, Richard

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

Corbett, James J.

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

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

Ross, Percy

10.

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

Bible

11.

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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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

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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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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Elliott, Walter

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

27.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

28.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

29.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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

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

Hays, Brian

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

40.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

41.

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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Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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

Howard, Curly

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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.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Euripides

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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.