Perseverance Motivational Quotes - Page 2

• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Success ... seems to be connected with action.

  Conrad Hilton

  Success, Perseverance, Mistake

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• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  Ross Perot

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.91, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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!''

  Richard DeVos

  Perseverance, Determination, Adversity

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• Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Procrastination

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• The potential for greatness lives within us all.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational Sports, Athlete, Greatness

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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• Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

  J.R. Miller

  Perseverance, Persevere, Reason

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• Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

  Conrad Hilton

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• 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

  Perseverance, Taken, Persistence

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.761, 谷月社

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• So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Some 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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