Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Christopher Reeve

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.

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

Bradley, Tom

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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 difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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I will hold.

Motto

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jessel, George

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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

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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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