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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

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

Bible

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.

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

Christopher Reeve

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Ruth, Babe

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

10.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

11.

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.

12.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

13.

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

14.

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

Jessel, George

15.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

16.

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

17.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

28.

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

Askenberg, J.

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

31.

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

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

Keller, Helen

33.

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

Howard, Curly

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Petty, Richard

40.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

41.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

42.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

43.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

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

45.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

46.

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

47.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

48.

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

Samuel Johnson

49.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

50.

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

Corbett, James J.