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

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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

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

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Sorbo, Kevin

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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 haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Wickman, Bob

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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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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

Howard, Curly

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

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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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Keller, Helen

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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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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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