Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Lovell, Jim

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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 hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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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 only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Lucretius

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

Samuel Johnson

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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

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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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

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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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

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

Osler, Sir William

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Hays, Brian

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

43.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

44.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher