Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

- Corso, Gregory

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ovid

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

Christopher Reeve

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Corbett, James J.

10.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

11.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

14.

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

Osler, Sir William

15.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

17.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

18.

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

19.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

20.

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

Wickman, Bob

21.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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.

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

Euripides

24.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

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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

27.

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

28.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

30.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

31.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

32.

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

Hays, Brian

33.

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

34.

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

Collier, Jeremy

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

36.

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

Howard, Curly

37.

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

38.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

39.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

40.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.

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

46.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Corso, Gregory

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

Bible

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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

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

Elliott, Walter