Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

- Wickman, Bob

Best Quotes about Perseverance

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Bible

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

19.

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

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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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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 endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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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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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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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

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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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 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

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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.

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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.

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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

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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

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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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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