Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Edison, Thomas A.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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.

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

I will hold.

Motto

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

Burke, Edmund

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

10.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

Hays, Brian

12.

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

Bradley, Tom

13.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

16.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

37.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

38.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

40.

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

41.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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.

43.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

44.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

45.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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