Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I will hold.

Motto

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Osler, Sir William

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

10.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

11.

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

Bradley, Tom

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

13.

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

Hays, Brian

14.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

18.

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

Lovell, Jim

19.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

20.

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.

21.

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.

22.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

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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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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

29.

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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.

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

32.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

33.

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bible

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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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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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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Grant, Ulysses S.