Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lucretius

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

10.

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.

11.

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

Bradley, Tom

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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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

Hays, Brian

17.

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

18.

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

Herhiser, Orel

19.

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

20.

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

Corbett, James J.

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

27.

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

Hays, Brian

28.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Keller, Helen

30.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

34.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Howard, Curly

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Ovid

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose