Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Christopher Reeve

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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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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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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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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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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.

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

Ovid

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

Lovell, Jim

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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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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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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

27.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Howard, Curly

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

Euripides

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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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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Hays, Brian

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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How long should you try? Until.