Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Riley, James Whitcomb

Best Quotes about Perseverance

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Hays, Brian

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

10.

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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

Christopher Reeve

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

41.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

43.

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

Bible

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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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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

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Burke, Edmund

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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.