Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ruth, Babe

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

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

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

Billings, Josh

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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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

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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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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

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

Ross, Percy

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Euripides

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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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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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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

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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.

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

Howard, Curly

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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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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