Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

- Jessel, George

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Osler, Sir William

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.

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

10.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

11.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

13.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

14.

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

Herhiser, Orel

15.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

19.

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

Euripides

20.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

21.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

23.

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

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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

25.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

26.

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

27.

I will hold.

Motto

28.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

29.

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

30.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

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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

34.

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

35.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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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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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Collier, Jeremy

45.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

46.

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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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

48.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

49.

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

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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.