Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

10.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

11.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

12.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Lovell, Jim

14.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

15.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

16.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

Elliott, Walter

18.

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

19.

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

Hays, Brian

20.

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

21.

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

Herhiser, Orel

22.

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

23.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

25.

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

Ross, Percy

26.

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

Lucretius

27.

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

28.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

29.

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

30.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

31.

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

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

Ruth, Babe

34.

I will hold.

Motto

35.

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

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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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

47.

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

49.

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Askenberg, J.