Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Petty, Richard

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Hays, Brian

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

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

Lovell, Jim

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

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

Samuel Johnson

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

10.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

11.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

12.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

13.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

19.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

20.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

22.

I will hold.

Motto

23.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

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

28.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

29.

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

30.

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

33.

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.

34.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

35.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

37.

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

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

Bradley, Tom

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

40.

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

41.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

42.

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

Howard, Curly

43.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

44.

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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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

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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 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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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

49.

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 most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.