Perseverance Quotes

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Ovid

  Pain, Endure, Turns

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• There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Men, Winning

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• When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 03, 2014

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• Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Sincerity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

  Frank Abagnale

  Giving Up, Attitude, Hard Work

  "Catch Me If You Can". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

  Carl Brashear

  Motivational, Persistence, Rising

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• Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

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• We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2013

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  If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

  Rahul Dravid

  Sports, Failure, Not Giving Up

  "Have failed at times, but never stopped trying: Rahul Dravid". archive.indianexpress.com. March 10, 2012.

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

  William Osler

  Struggle, Effort, Trying

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.4, ACP Press

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• Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

  William Cobbett

  Men, Want, Talent

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.36

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• The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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• Paralyze resistance with persistence.

  Woody Hayes

  Failure, Adversity, Not Giving Up

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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  Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Moving On, Truth

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

  William Feather

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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