Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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 despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

10.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

11.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

18.

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

Bradley, Tom

20.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Euripides

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

34.

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

35.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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 hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Hays, Brian

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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

42.

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

Burke, Edmund

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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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I will hold.

Motto

49.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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