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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PERSEVERANCE 3
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994, American President (37th))
We must endure what fortune sends.
Greek Proverb (Sayings of Greek origin)
Beyond the mountain is another mountain.
Haitian Proverb (Sayings of Haitian origin)
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
Zimbabwean Proverb
The only way to overcome is to hang in.
Dan O'Brien (1966-, American track athlete)
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.
Sir William Osler (1849-1919, Canadian physician)
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
Ovid (BC 43-18 AD, Roman poet)
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Ovid (BC 43-18 AD, Roman poet)
I attempt a difficult work; but there is no excellence without difficulty.
Ovid (BC 43-18 AD, Roman poet)
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctification. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.
Cynthia Ozick (1928-, American novelist, short-story writer)
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.
Arnold Palmer (1929-, American golfer)
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton (1946-, American musician, country singer, actress, songwriter)
What we want is never simple.
Linda Pastan
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Alice Paul (1885-1977, American feminist, social reformer)
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.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
Nothing of great value in life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window
Rosie Perez (1963-, American actress, dancer, choreographer)
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.
H. Ross Perot (1930-, American businessman, founder of EDS)
He conquers who endures.
Persius (34-62, Satirical poet)
No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
Richard Petty (1937-, Race car driver)
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
Marge Piercy
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.
Arthur Pine (American publisher, author)
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Titus Maccius Plautus (BC 254-184, Roman comic poet)
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 (46-120, Greek essayist, biographer)
Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow, do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks, or every six months, whatever is appropriate.
Lewis F. Presnall
Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Leontyne Price (1927, American opera singer)
No star is ever lost we once have seen. We always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Proctor
Several repeated visits to the mud pit enable the wasp to build its house.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
Between the beginning and end, there is always a middle.
Brazilian Proverb
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Buddhist Proverb
A diligent person will soon prosper.
Burmese Proverb
A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Don't halt before you are lame.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
We must learn from life how to suffer it.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
If the cat sits long enough at the hole, she will catch the mouse.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)
It is easier to demolish a house than to build one.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
Norwegian Proverb (Sayings of Norwegian origin)
Even if a mountain is high, there is always a way to reach the top -- and although the way might be full of danger, there is always a way for someone to get through it.
Vietnamese Proverb
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
If you can't go over, go under.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Quiet streams erode the shore.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
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.
Mary Caroline Richards
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.
Jacob Riis
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence, and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916, American poet)
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 (1849-1916, American poet)
Never admit defeat!
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891, French poet)
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
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.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American industrialist, philanthropist, founder Exxon)
How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
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.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945, American President (32nd))
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Percy Ross (American columnist)
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth (1895-1948, American baseball player)
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth (1895-1948, American baseball player)
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.
Saadi (c. 1210 - 1290, Persian poet)
Human successes, like human failures, are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.
Patty H. Sampson
It takes time, love, and support to find peace with the restless one.
Deidre Sarault
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan (1908-1981, American writer, novelist, playwright)
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
Nathalie Sarraute (1902-1999, Russian writer)
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.
Frederick Smith (American businessman, founder of Federal Express)
All great achievements require time.
David J. Schwartz (American trainer, author of "The Magic of Thinking Big")
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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-, Austrian-born American actor, author, director, restaurateur)
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-, Austrian-born American actor, author, director, restaurateur)
It's always too soon to quit.
David T. Scoates
Eternity ... think of it when you are hard pushed.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
There is something in me -- I just can't stand to admit defeat.
Beverly Sills (1929-, American opera singer)
People can bear anything.
Philip Slater
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.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904, Scottish author)
It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Bessie Smith
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
Sam Snead (1912-2002, American golfer)
By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist preacher)
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?
William Stafford
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world. But I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.
Sylvester Stallone (1946-, American actor, writer, director, producer)
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world. But I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.
Sylvester Stallone (1946-, American actor, writer, director, producer)
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.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
We are judged by what we finish, not what we start
Author Unknown
We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.
Author Unknown
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
Edward A. Strecker
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
Meridel Le Sueur
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
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?
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863, Indian-born British novelist)
This lady is not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 24:16
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 24:16
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Hebrews 10:36
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: James 1:4
If you consistently and there is something to gain and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.
Brian Tracy (1944-, Canadian-born American trainer, speaker, author, businessman) Author's website: www.briantracy.com
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!"
Sir Thomas Treves
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 the 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.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
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 the 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.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
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.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.
Brenda Ueland
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Author Unknown
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.
Author Unknown
I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Author Unknown
It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.
Author Unknown
It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.
Author Unknown
Never say die.
Author Unknown
Never say die.
Author Unknown
Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.
Author Unknown
Sometimes life may seem like a tunnel, endless and dark, but don't concentrate on the light at the end, and you will succeed.
Author Unknown
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Author Unknown
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
Jim Valvano (1946-1993, American college basketball coach)
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
Author Unknown
Yard by yard, it's very hard. But inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Author Unknown
Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.
Author Unknown
I am confident. I never give up.
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (1972-, Spanish tennis player)
Keep on trying. Each failure is one step closer to a success.
Thomas J. Vilord
Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things.
Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)
Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)
Why not is a slogan for an interesting life. Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble. Fortune favors the brave.
Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)
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.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
Herschel Walker
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon (1933-, British novelist)
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919, American poet, journalist)
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
Be persistent in pursuing your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-, American TV personality, producer, actress, author)
You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-, American TV personality, producer, actress, author)
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
John Wooden (1910-, American basketball coach)
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
David Zucker
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