Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

- Andrews, Julie

Best Quotes about Perseverance

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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

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

Bible

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Petty, Richard

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

Smith, Sydney

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Howard, Curly

12.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

14.

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

Hays, Brian

15.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

16.

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

Wickman, Bob

17.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

23.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

24.

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

25.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

29.

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.

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

Askenberg, J.

32.

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

33.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

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

Ross, Percy

37.

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

Bradley, Tom

38.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

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

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

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

43.

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

Keller, Helen

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

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