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Perseverance

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Euripides

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

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

10.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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

14.

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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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

16.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

17.

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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hays, Brian

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Jessel, George

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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.

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

29.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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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

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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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This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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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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.

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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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

39.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas