Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Perseverance

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

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

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

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]

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

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

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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

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

Hilton, Conrad

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Howard, Curly

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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

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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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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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