Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

A jug fills drop by drop.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

10.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

11.

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

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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I will hold.

Motto

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

22.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

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

Lucretius

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

33.

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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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.

37.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

39.

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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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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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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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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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

Bradley, Tom

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.