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

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Wickman, Bob

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

10.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

11.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Askenberg, J.

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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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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bible

23.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

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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.

28.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

29.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

31.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

32.

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

Robbins, Anthony

33.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

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

Euripides

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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

Corbett, James J.

43.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Hays, Brian

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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

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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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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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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher