Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Euripides

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

10.

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.

11.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

12.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Elliott, Walter

14.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

15.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

16.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

17.

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

Osler, Sir William

18.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

19.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

20.

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

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

26.

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

Askenberg, J.

27.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

28.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

29.

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

Hays, Brian

30.

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

Hays, Brian

31.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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.

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

Ross, Percy

34.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Strauss, Robert

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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

36.

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

Ovid

37.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

38.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

39.

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

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Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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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

42.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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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

49.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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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