Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

- Hayes, Woody

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Howard, Curly

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

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

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

10.

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

Herhiser, Orel

11.

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

Bible

12.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

16.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

17.

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.

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Smith, Sydney

21.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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.

26.

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

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.

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

Hays, Brian

29.

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

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

32.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

35.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

36.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

37.

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.

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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

39.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

40.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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.

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

43.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Bradley, Tom

47.

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

48.

I will hold.

Motto

49.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

50.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel