Quotes about perseverance

"Plodding wins the race."

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"Persevere and get it done."

Allen, George on perseverance
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"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 on perseverance
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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. on perseverance
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

Andrews, Julie on perseverance
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"You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all."

Askenberg, J. on perseverance
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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 on perseverance
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"For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]"

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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]"

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"Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]"

Bible on perseverance
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"A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success."

Bierce, Ambrose on perseverance   

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

Billings, Josh on perseverance
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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 on perseverance   

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on perseverance
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"Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal."

Bradley, Tom on perseverance
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"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 on perseverance
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"A jug fills drop by drop."

Buddha on perseverance
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"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."

Burke, Edmund on perseverance   

"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell on perseverance
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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 on perseverance
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Carnegie, Dale on perseverance
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"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."

Chesterfield, Lord on perseverance
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way."

Collier, Jeremy on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance
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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. on perseverance
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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 on perseverance
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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 on perseverance
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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. on perseverance
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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. on perseverance   

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

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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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. on perseverance
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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. on perseverance   

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

Eggleston, Edward on perseverance
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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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 on perseverance
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"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."

Eliot, George on perseverance