Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Bible

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Elliott, Walter

12.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

13.

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

Ruth, Babe

14.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

15.

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

16.

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

17.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

18.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

19.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

21.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

22.

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

23.

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

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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

25.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

26.

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

Ruth, Babe

27.

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.

28.

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.

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

Collier, Jeremy

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

34.

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

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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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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

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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

38.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

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

40.

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.

41.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

42.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

43.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.