Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Hays, Brian

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

Jessel, George

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

Ovid

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

10.

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

Ross, Percy

12.

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

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

17.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Howard, Curly

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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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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

32.

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

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Burke, Edmund

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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 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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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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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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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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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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