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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Hays, Brian

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.

I will hold.

Motto

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

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jessel, George

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

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.

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Herhiser, Orel

14.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

15.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

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

Robbins, Anthony

19.

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

Bradley, Tom

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Howard, Curly

27.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

30.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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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.

32.

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

Elliott, Walter

33.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

34.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

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.

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

Wickman, Bob

38.

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

39.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

40.

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

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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

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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

48.

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

Samuel Johnson

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