Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

I will hold.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

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.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Hilton, Conrad

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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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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

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Billings, Josh

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Jessel, George

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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

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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

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin