Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Euripides

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

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Osler, Sir William

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Nicklaus, Jack

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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.

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

Christopher Reeve

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

17.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

18.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

19.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

20.

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

21.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

23.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

24.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

25.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

26.

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

27.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

28.

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

29.

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

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Wickman, Bob

32.

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

35.

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

36.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

38.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

39.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

40.

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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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

42.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

48.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John