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Perseverance

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

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Bradley, Tom

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

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

Lucretius

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

11.

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

Jessel, George

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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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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.

21.

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

Keller, Helen

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

Euripides

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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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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Howard, Curly

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

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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

Ruth, Babe

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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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