Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Howard, Curly

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

10.

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

Lovell, Jim

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Keller, Helen

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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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Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Hays, Brian

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

Burke, Edmund

25.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

33.

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

Bible

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Churchill, Winston

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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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.

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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

44.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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

46.

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

Samuel Johnson

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

48.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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.