Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

It's always too soon to quit.

- Scoates, David T.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Bible

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

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

Euripides

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

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

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

Petty, Richard

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

13.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

17.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Howard, Curly

19.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

27.

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

Wickman, Bob

28.

I will hold.

Motto

29.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

Hays, Brian

31.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Ruth, Babe

33.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

34.

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

36.

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

37.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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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

39.

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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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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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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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

43.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.