Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

- Grant, Ulysses S.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

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

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

13.

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

14.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

15.

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

16.

I will hold.

Motto

17.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

19.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

20.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Collier, Jeremy

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

25.

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

Christopher Reeve

26.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

27.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Wickman, Bob

29.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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.

33.

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

Hays, Brian

34.

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

Lucretius

35.

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

36.

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

Bradley, Tom

37.

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

Burke, Edmund

38.

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

Hays, Brian

39.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

40.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

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

Howard, Curly