Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

- Allen, George

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Bible

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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 thee 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.

Twain, Mark

10.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Askenberg, J.

12.

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

Keller, Helen

13.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

14.

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.

Cossman, E. Joseph

15.

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

Ovid

16.

Allen, George

17.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

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.

Iacocca, Lee

19.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

20.

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.

Forbes, B. C.

21.

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

Petty, Richard

22.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

23.

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.

Brown, Les

24.

I will hold.

Motto

25.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

26.

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

Bradley, Tom

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

29.

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

30.

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

Osler, Sir William

31.

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.

Riis, Jacob

32.

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

Wickman, Bob

33.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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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.

James, William

35.

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

Elliott, Walter

36.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

37.

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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Herhiser, Orel

41.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

42.

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

Allen, George E.

43.

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

Lovell, Jim

44.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

45.

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.

Smith, Frederick

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

47.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

48.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

49.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

50.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon