Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ross, Percy

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Burke, Edmund

10.

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

Bradley, Tom

11.

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

12.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

15.

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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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

17.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

18.

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.

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

21.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

27.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

28.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

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

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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

33.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

34.

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

Wickman, Bob

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

I will hold.

Motto

39.

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

Bible

40.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

41.

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

42.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

45.

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

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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

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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

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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