Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

- Andrews, Julie

Best Quotes about Perseverance

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

Ovid

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

Collier, Jeremy

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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.

Corso, Gregory

I will hold.

Motto

10.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

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

12.

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

Ross, Percy

13.

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

Wickman, Bob

14.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

15.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

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

22.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

24.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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?

Thackeray, William M.

26.

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

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

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

Lucretius

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

35.

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

Bradley, Tom

36.

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

37.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

38.

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.

39.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

40.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

43.

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

44.

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

Jessel, George

45.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

46.

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.

Wordsworth, William

47.

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

48.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

49.

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

Burke, Edmund

50.

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