Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Jessel, George

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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

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.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

10.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

11.

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

Lucretius

12.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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.

14.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

15.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

16.

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

Wickman, Bob

17.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

20.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

21.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

22.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

23.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

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

Elliott, Walter

25.

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.

26.

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

Euripides

27.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

28.

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 more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

30.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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.

35.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

36.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

37.

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.

38.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

39.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

40.

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

Robbins, Anthony

41.

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