Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

12.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

16.

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.

17.

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

Wickman, Bob

18.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

21.

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

22.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Robbins, Anthony

24.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

25.

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

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

28.

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

29.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

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.

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Burke, Edmund

33.

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

34.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

35.

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

Herhiser, Orel

36.

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

Corbett, James J.

37.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

38.

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

Osler, Sir William

39.

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

Ruth, Babe

40.

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

Hays, Brian

41.

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

42.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

43.

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

Howard, Curly

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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.

46.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

50.

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

Mcpherson, Rene