Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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

Herhiser, Orel

I will hold.

Motto

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

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

Lucretius

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

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

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

19.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

21.

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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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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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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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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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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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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

32.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

33.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

34.

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

Ovid

35.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

36.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

37.

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

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Hays, Brian

40.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Elliott, Walter

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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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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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

46.

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 am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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