Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

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

Samuel Johnson

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

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

Lucretius

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

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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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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

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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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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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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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

18.

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

Lovell, Jim

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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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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Burke, Edmund

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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jessel, George

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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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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney 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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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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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Ovid

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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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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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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.