Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Euripides

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Collier, Jeremy

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

10.

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

Bradley, Tom

11.

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

12.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

13.

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

14.

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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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

17.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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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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]

Bible

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

24.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

25.

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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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

27.

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

28.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

29.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

32.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

33.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

34.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

35.

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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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

37.

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

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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.

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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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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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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

49.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson