March 5, 2013

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

~J. Askenberg ~

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

~Henry Ward Beecher ~

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

~Bible ~

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

~Ambrose Bierce ~

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 ~

A jug fills drop by drop.

~Buddha ~

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

~Edmund Burke ~

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

~Thomas Carlyle ~

Never, never, never, never give up.

~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 ~

They, that unnamed “they,” they’ve knocked me down but I got up. I always get up — and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I’ve long ago named them me.

~Gregory Corso ~

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

~Mike Ditka ~

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

~Thomas A. Edison ~

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

~Walter Elliott ~

God Almighty hates a quitter.

~Samuel Fessenden ~

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 ~

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

~Brian Hays ~

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 ~

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

~Napoleon Hill ~

If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

~Curly Howard ~

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

~Helen Keller ~

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

~Abraham Lincoln ~

Never despair, keep pushing on!

~Sir Thomas Lipton ~

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

~Titus Livy ~

I never thought I didn’t have a card to play.

~Jim Lovell ~

The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.

~Lucretius ~

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

~Rene Mcpherson ~

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

~Dr. A. B. Meldrum ~

I will hold.

~Motto ~

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

~Dan O’Brien ~

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 ~

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 ~

No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.

~Richard Petty ~

Never say die.

~Proverb ~

It’s always too soon to quit.

~David T. Scoates ~

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

~Sydney Smith ~

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I’m insecure about I don’t dissect it, but I’ll go after it and say, “What am I afraid of?” I bet the average successful person can tell you they’ve failed so much more than they’ve had success. I’ve had far more failures than I’ve had successes. With every commercial I’ve gotten, there were 200 I didn’t get. You have to go after what you’re afraid of.

~Kevin Sorbo ~

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 ~

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 ~

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 ~

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

~Source Unknown ~

I am confident. I never give up.

~Arantxa Sanchez Vicario ~

I never gave up, even when people told me I’d never make it.

~Bob Wickman ~

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 ~

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 ~

Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.

~David Zucker ~

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