Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

- Andrews, Julie

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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.

Carlyle, Thomas

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Nicklaus, Jack

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

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

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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.

Palmer, Arnold

13.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

14.

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

Keller, Helen

15.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

18.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

19.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

20.

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

21.

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.

Borg, Bjorn

22.

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

Billings, Josh

23.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

25.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

Hays, Brian

28.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

29.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

30.

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

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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Herhiser, Orel

35.

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

36.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

37.

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

40.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

42.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

43.

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

44.

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.

Carnegie, Dale

45.

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

Hays, Brian

46.

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

47.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Lucretius