Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Corbett, James J.

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

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

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

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.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Elliott, Walter

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Wickman, Bob

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bradley, Tom

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Bible

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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

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.