Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

11.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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

18.

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

19.

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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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Borg, Bjorn

22.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

29.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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.

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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

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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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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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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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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