Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

10.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

11.

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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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

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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.

14.

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

Robbins, Anthony

15.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

16.

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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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

18.

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

Osler, Sir William

19.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

20.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

21.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

24.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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

Ruth, Babe

35.

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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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I will hold.

Motto

39.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

40.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Bradley, Tom

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Keller, Helen

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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

46.

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

Hays, Brian

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

Bible

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