Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Elliott, Walter

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

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

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Osler, Sir William

10.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

11.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Hays, Brian

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Jessel, George

16.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Christopher Reeve

20.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Howard, Curly

30.

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

Ross, Percy

31.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

32.

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

33.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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

35.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

36.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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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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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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

41.

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

Petty, Richard

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

43.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

45.

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

46.

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

Ovid

47.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

48.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

49.

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

50.

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