Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Perseverance

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Hays, Brian

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jessel, George

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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.

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

21.

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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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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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

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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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 nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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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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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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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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 hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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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

34.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

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

Lucretius

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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