Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I will hold.

Motto

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

Euripides

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Elliott, Walter

11.

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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

17.

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

Ruth, Babe

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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.

19.

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

20.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

21.

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

22.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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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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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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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

34.

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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Bradley, Tom

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hays, Brian

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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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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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