Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Ruth, Babe

19.

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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

21.

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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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.

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

25.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

26.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

27.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

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

Lucretius

33.

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

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

36.

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

Hilton, Conrad

37.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Keller, Helen

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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

42.

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.

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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

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hill, Napoleon