Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Ovid

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

Hays, Brian

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.

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

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.

10.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

13.

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

14.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

15.

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

Bradley, Tom

16.

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

Christopher Reeve

17.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Smith, Sydney

32.

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

Askenberg, J.

33.

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

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.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

36.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

37.

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

38.

I will hold.

Motto

39.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

Robbins, Anthony

43.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

45.

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

46.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Petty, Richard

47.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

48.

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

49.

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

Ruth, Babe

50.

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