Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

How long should you try? Until.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

Keller, Helen

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hill, Napoleon

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

10.

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

11.

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

Jessel, George

12.

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.

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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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

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Hays, Brian

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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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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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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

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Lucretius

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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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.

38.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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I will hold.

Motto

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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