Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lovell, Jim

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

12.

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

13.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

14.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

15.

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.

16.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

17.

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.

18.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

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

Euripides

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

23.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

28.

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

Christopher Reeve

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Petty, Richard

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Bradley, Tom

35.

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

Hays, Brian

36.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

37.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

40.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Smith, Sydney

42.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

43.

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.

44.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

45.

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

Robbins, Anthony

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Keller, Helen