Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

- Doherty, Henry L.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Keller, Helen

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

Euripides

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

Corbett, James J.

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

10.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

12.

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

13.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

14.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

15.

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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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

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

21.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

22.

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

Collier, Jeremy

23.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

24.

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

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

29.

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

30.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

31.

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

Bradley, Tom

32.

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.

33.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

34.

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

35.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

36.

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

Robbins, Anthony

37.

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

38.

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

Lucretius

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

41.

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

Ross, Percy

42.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

43.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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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

47.

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

48.

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

Ruth, Babe

49.

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

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

Petty, Richard