Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

Bible

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Lovell, Jim

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I will hold.

Motto

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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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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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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

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

Ross, Percy

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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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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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

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Collier, Jeremy

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber