Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lucretius

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

Jessel, George

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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.

11.

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

Ruth, Babe

12.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

13.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

14.

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

15.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

16.

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

17.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

18.

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

Keller, Helen

19.

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

20.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

22.

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.

23.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

24.

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

25.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

26.

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

27.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Ovid

30.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

31.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

32.

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

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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.

35.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

36.

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

37.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

38.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

39.

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

40.

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

41.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

42.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

43.

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

44.

I will hold.

Motto

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

Bible

46.

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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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

48.

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

49.

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

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch