Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hays, Brian

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Collier, Jeremy

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Ruth, Babe

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.

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

Ovid

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Hays, Brian

18.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

19.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

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

21.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

26.

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

Lovell, Jim

27.

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.

28.

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

Jessel, George

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Christopher Reeve

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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

33.

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

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Howard, Curly

43.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

44.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

47.

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

48.

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

49.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

50.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim