Quotes about perseverance

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

Robbins, Anthony on perseverance   

"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. on perseverance
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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 on perseverance   

"How long should you try? Until."

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on perseverance
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"Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean."

Ross, Percy on perseverance   

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

Ruth, Babe on perseverance
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"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

Ruth, Babe on perseverance
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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."

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"All great achievements require time."

Schwartz, David J. on perseverance
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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 on perseverance   

"It's always too soon to quit."

Scoates, David T. on perseverance
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"I am a kind of burr; I shall stick."

Shakespeare, William on perseverance
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"Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on perseverance   

"Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."

Smiles, Samuel on perseverance   

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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 on perseverance   

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

Smith, Sydney on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance   

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on perseverance
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"Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on perseverance
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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 on perseverance
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"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 on perseverance
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"No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on perseverance   

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"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. on perseverance
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"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

Thatcher, Margaret on 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 on perseverance   

"This lady is not for turning."

Thatcher, Margaret on perseverance   

"Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!"

Treves, Sir Thomas on perseverance   

"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 on perseverance
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"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."

Twain, Mark on perseverance
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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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"When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there."

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

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"If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through."

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"It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes."

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"Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself."

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"I am confident. I never give up."

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez on perseverance
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"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."

Waitley, Denis on perseverance
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