Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Ross, Percy

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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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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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

Keller, Helen

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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

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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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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Lovell, Jim

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ovid

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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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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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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]

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