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

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

Lovell, Jim

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Petty, Richard

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

10.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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.

Pine, Arthur

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Herhiser, Orel

14.

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.

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

Hays, Brian

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

19.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

20.

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.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

21.

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.

Sorbo, Kevin

22.

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

Burke, Edmund

23.

I will hold.

Motto

24.

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

25.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

26.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

27.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

28.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

29.

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

Bible

30.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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.

Coolidge, Calvin

32.

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

33.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

34.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

35.

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!

Treves, Sir Thomas

36.

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

Wickman, Bob

37.

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

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

40.

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.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

42.

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

43.

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

Ross, Percy

44.

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

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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.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Lucretius

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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.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

50.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.