Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Howard, Curly

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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.

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

Lucretius

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

14.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

17.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

20.

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

Euripides

21.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

22.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

24.

I will hold.

Motto

25.

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

26.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

27.

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

Hilton, Conrad

28.

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

29.

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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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

34.

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

Wickman, Bob

35.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

36.

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

Lovell, Jim

37.

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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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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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Mcpherson, Rene

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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.

42.

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

Keller, Helen

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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

44.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

45.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas