Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Never despair, keep pushing on!

- Lipton, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Bible

I will hold.

Motto

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

Howard, Curly

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

Hill, Napoleon

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

10.

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

11.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Askenberg, J.

17.

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

Samuel Johnson

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

20.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Elliott, Walter

29.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

38.

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

Collier, Jeremy

39.

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

40.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Billings, Josh

42.

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

Corbett, James J.

43.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Euripides

45.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Burke, Edmund

47.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

48.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

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

Hays, Brian

50.

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