Great Perseverance Quotes

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Inspirational, Positive, Success

"Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 51), 1888.

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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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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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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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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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

"Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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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.

James Whitcomb Riley

Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

Randy Pausch

Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance

YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

"Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Change, Positive

Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Marian Wright Edelman

Inspiring, Happiness, Success

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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. 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.

Calvin Coolidge

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

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

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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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If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

William Feather

Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hero, Men, Generosity

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Abigail Adams

Perseverance, 4th Of July, May

Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE

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