Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Don't halt before you are lame.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Ovid

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

Hays, Brian

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

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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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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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.

14.

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

15.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

16.

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

17.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

18.

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

19.

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

Keller, Helen

20.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

21.

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

Lovell, Jim

22.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lucretius

24.

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

25.

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

Herhiser, Orel

26.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

27.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

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

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

34.

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

35.

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

40.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Elliott, Walter

42.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

43.

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

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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.

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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.