Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Howard, Curly

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

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

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

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

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

Petty, Richard

10.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

11.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

12.

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

13.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

14.

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

15.

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

Ovid

16.

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

17.

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

Jessel, George

18.

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

Christopher Reeve

19.

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.

20.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

21.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

22.

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.

23.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

24.

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

Wickman, Bob

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

30.

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

31.

I will hold.

Motto

32.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

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

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

Keller, Helen

35.

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

36.

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

Ruth, Babe

37.

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

Hays, Brian

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

40.

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

41.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

42.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

46.

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

Bible

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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

48.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

49.

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.

50.

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