Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Bradley, Tom

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bradley, Tom

10.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

11.

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

Ruth, Babe

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

15.

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

16.

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

Ross, Percy

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

24.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

25.

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

26.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

28.

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.

29.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

30.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

31.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

Robbins, Anthony

37.

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

38.

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.

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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.

40.

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

Corbett, James J.

41.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

42.

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

46.

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

Elliott, Walter

47.

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

49.

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.

50.

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