Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

- Andrews, Julie

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

I will hold.

Motto

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

Herhiser, Orel

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Lucretius

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Collier, Jeremy

22.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

23.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

24.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

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

Samuel Johnson

28.

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

Bradley, Tom

29.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

34.

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

Jessel, George

35.

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

36.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

37.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

38.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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.

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

Smith, Sydney

41.

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

Bible

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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

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

Hays, Brian

46.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

Euripides

49.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

50.

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