Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Askenberg, J.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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

Osler, Sir William

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

10.

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

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

Wickman, Bob

12.

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

Ruth, Babe

13.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

14.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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

21.

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

Howard, Curly

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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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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

27.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

30.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

31.

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

Bible

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Thackeray, William M.

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Burke, Edmund

39.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Corbett, James J.

43.

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

Lovell, Jim

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

45.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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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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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 a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham