Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Osler, Sir William

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

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.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Euripides

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

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

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Herhiser, Orel

15.

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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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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

23.

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

24.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

25.

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

Wickman, Bob

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

29.

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

30.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

31.

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

32.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

33.

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

Collier, Jeremy

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

36.

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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I will hold.

Motto

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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

40.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

41.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

44.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

45.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

49.

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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean