Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Hays, Brian

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Hilton, Conrad

10.

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.

11.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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 the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

14.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

16.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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

Wickman, Bob

19.

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.

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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

Bradley, Tom

23.

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

24.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

27.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

28.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

29.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

30.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

31.

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

Howard, Curly

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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

34.

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

35.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

38.

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

39.

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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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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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

43.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

45.

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

Christopher Reeve

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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