Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

- Strauss, Robert

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Einstein, Albert

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

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

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

15.

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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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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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

18.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

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

Wickman, Bob

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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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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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

25.

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

Elliott, Walter

28.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

32.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

34.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

35.

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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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

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

39.

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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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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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.

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

Bradley, Tom

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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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