Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

- Borg, Bjorn

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lucretius

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

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

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

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

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

Nicklaus, Jack

10.

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

11.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

13.

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

Ruth, Babe

14.

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

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

20.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

22.

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

Herhiser, Orel

23.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

24.

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.

25.

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.

26.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

27.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

28.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

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

Ruth, Babe

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

35.

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

Osler, Sir William

36.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

37.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Lovell, Jim

44.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

45.

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

Euripides

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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

49.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

50.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret