Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

10.

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

11.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

12.

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

Collier, Jeremy

13.

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

Howard, Curly

14.

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

15.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

16.

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

Ruth, Babe

17.

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

18.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

20.

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

Hilton, Conrad

21.

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

Bible

22.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

23.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

28.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

29.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

31.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

32.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

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

Ovid

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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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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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

42.

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

Lucretius

43.

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

Lovell, Jim

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

48.

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

Corbett, James J.

49.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

50.

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