Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

- Eggleston, Edward

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Corbett, James J.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Ross, Percy

11.

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.

12.

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

Elliott, Walter

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.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

15.

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

16.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

17.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

26.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

27.

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

28.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

29.

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

30.

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

Collier, Jeremy

31.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Howard, Curly

36.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

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

38.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

40.

I will hold.

Motto

41.

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

42.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

43.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

44.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

45.

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

Smith, Sydney

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

49.

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

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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret