Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Bradley, Tom

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

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

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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.

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

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Ovid

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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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I will hold.

Motto

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Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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

Howard, Curly

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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

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

Hays, Brian

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Jessel, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Elliott, Walter

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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