Quotes about perseverance

"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 on perseverance   

"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on perseverance   

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

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"Never despair, keep pushing on!"

Lipton, Sir Thomas on perseverance   

"Persevere in virtue and diligence."

Livy, Titus on perseverance   

"If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on perseverance   

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on perseverance   

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

Lovell, Jim on perseverance   

"Endurance is the crowning quality..."

Lowell, James Russell on perseverance
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"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."

Lucretius on perseverance
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"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone."

Lucretius on perseverance   

"Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks."

Lyly, John on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."

Mcpherson, Rene on perseverance
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"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. on perseverance
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"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

Morley, Christopher on perseverance
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"I will hold."

Motto on perseverance   

"Through struggle to the stars."

Motto on perseverance   

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"Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation."

Nicklaus, Jack on perseverance
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"A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits."

Nixon, Richard M. on perseverance
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"The only way to overcome is to hang in."

O'Brien, Dan on perseverance   

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

Osler, Sir William on perseverance   

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

Ovid on perseverance
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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 on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."

Perot, H. Ross on perseverance   

"He conquers who endures."

Persius on perseverance   

"No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning."

Petty, Richard on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"The darkest hour is just before the dawn."

Proverb on perseverance
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"Never say die."

Proverb on perseverance
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"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

Proverb, African on perseverance
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"Don't halt before you are lame."

Proverb, English on perseverance   

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

Proverb, Japanese on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these."

Riley, James Whitcomb on perseverance