Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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.

I will hold.

Motto

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

18.

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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

23.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

24.

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

Howard, Curly

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

Bible

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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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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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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

29.

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

30.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

33.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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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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The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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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

41.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

42.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

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

Hill, Napoleon