Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Nicklaus, Jack

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Hays, Brian

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keller, Helen

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

Lucretius

10.

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ovid

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I will hold.

Motto

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

Ruth, Babe

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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

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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

31.

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

Bible

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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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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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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

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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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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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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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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

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Euripides

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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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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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George