Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Jessel, George

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Askenberg, J.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hays, Brian

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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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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ovid

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hays, Brian

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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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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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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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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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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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

Ruth, Babe