Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Bible

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

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

Lovell, Jim

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Hilton, Conrad

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

10.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

11.

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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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Collier, Jeremy

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

18.

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

Lucretius

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

27.

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

Ovid

29.

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.

30.

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 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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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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Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

44.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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

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

Jessel, George

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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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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Hill, Napoleon