Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Petty, Richard

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

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

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

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.

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

Howard, Curly

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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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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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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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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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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hays, Brian

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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.

Billings, Josh

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