Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

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

Askenberg, J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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.

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

Ross, Percy

10.

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

11.

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

Euripides

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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

14.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Petty, Richard

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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

18.

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

Collier, Jeremy

19.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

20.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Jessel, George

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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.

25.

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

34.

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

Howard, Curly

35.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

42.

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

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mcpherson, Rene

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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

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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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]

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