Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

This lady is not for turning.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Herhiser, Orel

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lucretius

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

22.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

23.

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

Euripides

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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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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Ovid

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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 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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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

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Elliott, Walter

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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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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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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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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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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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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