Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ovid

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Bible

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Hays, Brian

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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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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Howard, Curly

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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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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

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

Herhiser, Orel

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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.

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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.

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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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.