Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Ruth, Babe

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

I will hold.

Motto

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.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lucretius

14.

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

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

Ovid

19.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

20.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

22.

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

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

25.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

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

Keller, Helen

27.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

28.

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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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

31.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

32.

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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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Bible

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hays, Brian

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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