Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

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

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keller, Helen

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A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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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.

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

Elliott, Walter

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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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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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 only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Hays, Brian

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Ruth, Babe

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Euripides

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

Howard, Curly

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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

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If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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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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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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