Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

- Hayes, Woody

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Jessel, George

10.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

11.

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

12.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

13.

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

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

Ruth, Babe

16.

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

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

I will hold.

Motto

21.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Christopher Reeve

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

30.

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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

32.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

33.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

35.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

38.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Samuel Johnson

41.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

43.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

45.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

46.

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

Smith, Sydney

47.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

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