Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Petty, Richard

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.

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

Euripides

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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.

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

Jessel, George

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I will hold.

Motto

11.

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

Samuel Johnson

12.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

13.

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

Hays, Brian

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

17.

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

18.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

20.

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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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

23.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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

25.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Nixon, Richard M.

27.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

28.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

30.

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.

31.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

36.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

39.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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

45.

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 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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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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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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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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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]

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