Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Corbett, James J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Lucretius

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ruth, Babe

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Ovid

16.

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

17.

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

Elliott, Walter

18.

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

Corbett, James J.

19.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

20.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

21.

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

22.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

23.

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

Samuel Johnson

24.

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

25.

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

Osler, Sir William

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

29.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

31.

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

Hays, Brian

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

43.

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.

44.

I will hold.

Motto

45.

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

Petty, Richard

46.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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

48.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

49.

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.

50.

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