Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Persevere and get it done.

- Allen, George

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Bradley, Tom

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

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.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

17.

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

18.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

19.

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

Lovell, Jim

20.

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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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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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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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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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

26.

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

Collier, Jeremy

27.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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.

34.

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

35.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

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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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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

Howard, Curly

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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