Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Einstein, Albert

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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

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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.

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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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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

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

19.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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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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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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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Hays, Brian

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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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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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

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nicklaus, Jack