Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Perseverance

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

I will hold.

Motto

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

10.

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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Ruth, Babe

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

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

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Lucretius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ovid

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

43.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Jessel, George

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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

47.

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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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

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

Elliott, Walter

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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