Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Ruth, Babe

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

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Petty, Richard

10.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

11.

I will hold.

Motto

12.

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

Osler, Sir William

13.

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

14.

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 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

16.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

23.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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

25.

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

26.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

27.

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

28.

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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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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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

31.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

Lovell, Jim

34.

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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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

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

43.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

45.

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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

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

49.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.