Inspirations

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

- George Allen

Persevere and get it done.

- George Allen

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

- George E Allen

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

- Julie Andrews

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

- Bible

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

- Bible

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

- Hebrews 10:36, Bible

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

- Josh Billings

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

- Bjorn Borg

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

- Tom Bradley

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

- Les Brown

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

- Les Brown

A jug fills drop by drop.

- Buddha

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

- Edmund Burke

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

- Thomas Carlyle

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

- Dale Carnegie

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

- Lord Chesterfield

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

- Winston Churchill

Never, never, never, never give up.

- Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

- Winston Churchill

Nothing in the 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

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

- James J Corbett

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

- E Joseph Cossman

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 M DeVos

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A Edison

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

- Thomas A Edison

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

- Thomas A Edison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

- Thomas A Edison

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after another.

- Walter Elliott

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

- B C Forbes

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

- Newt Gingrich

To be somebody you must last.

- Ruth Gordon

It matters if you just don't give up.

- Stephen Hawking

If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

- Brian Hays

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

- Brian Hays

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

- Ernest Hello

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

- Orel Herhiser

Some men 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

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

- Napoleon Hill

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

- Napoleon Hill

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

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

- Conrad Hilton

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

- Elbert Hubbard

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

- Lee Iacocca

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

- William James

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Helen Keller

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

- Billie Jean King

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

- Abraham Lincoln

Never despair, keep pushing on!

- Sir Thomas Lipton

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

- Lucretius

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

- Orison Swett Marden

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

- Rene Mcpherson

I will hold.

- Motto

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

- Christopher Morley

Through struggle to the stars.

- Motto

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

- Jack Nicklaus

A man is not finished when he's defeated, he's finished when he quits.

- Richard M Nixon

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

- Dan O'Brien

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

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

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

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

Never say die.

- Proverb

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

- Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

- African Proverb

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

- James Whitcomb Riley

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

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

- Anthony Robbins

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

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

- Franklin D Roosevelt

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

- Percy Ross

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

- Babe Ruth

All great achievements require time.

- David J Schwartz

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

It's always too soon to quit.

- David T Scoates

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.

- Florence Scovel Shinn

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

- Sydney Smith

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

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

- Source Unknown

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

- Source Unknown

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

- Source Unknown

I am confident. I never give up.

- Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

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

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

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Get Inspired for Virtue 2: Courage and Emotional Strengths

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Persevere and get it done.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [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.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

A jug fills drop by drop.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Nothing in the 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.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

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

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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

Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after another.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

To be somebody you must last.

It matters if you just don't give up.

If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Some men 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.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

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.

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

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

I will hold.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Through struggle to the stars.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

A man is not finished when he's defeated, he's finished when he quits.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Never say die.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

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.

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

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.

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

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

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

All great achievements require time.