Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Askenberg, J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

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

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

Hays, Brian

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

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Bradley, Tom

10.

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

11.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

12.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

13.

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

Lovell, Jim

14.

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

15.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

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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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

30.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

31.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

37.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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

Howard, Curly

40.

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

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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.

42.

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

Jessel, George

43.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

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

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.