Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Ovid

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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.

10.

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

11.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

12.

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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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ross, Percy

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

26.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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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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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Askenberg, J.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

37.

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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I will hold.

Motto

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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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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel