Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Bible

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

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

11.

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

Wickman, Bob

12.

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

Ovid

13.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

14.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

15.

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

Jessel, George

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Hays, Brian

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

26.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

33.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

34.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

35.

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

Lucretius

36.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

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

Bradley, Tom

38.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

39.

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

40.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

44.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Billings, Josh

49.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

50.

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

Keller, Helen