Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Bradley, Tom

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Burke, Edmund

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

Bradley, Tom

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

12.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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

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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

15.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

16.

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

17.

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

Ross, Percy

18.

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

19.

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

Smith, Sydney

20.

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

Hays, Brian

21.

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.

22.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

24.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

25.

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

26.

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

Jessel, George

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Ruth, Babe

31.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

32.

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

33.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

39.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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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

41.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

42.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

43.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

44.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

45.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

46.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

49.

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

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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