Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Keller, Helen

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

11.

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

Jessel, George

12.

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.

13.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

14.

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.

15.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

16.

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.

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Lucretius

20.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

21.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

22.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

26.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

27.

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

28.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Euripides

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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

37.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

42.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

43.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

44.

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

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

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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

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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

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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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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.

50.

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

Lovell, Jim