Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Never despair, keep pushing on!

- Lipton, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Bible

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

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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

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

10.

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

Corbett, James J.

11.

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

12.

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

13.

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

14.

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

Euripides

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.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

24.

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

25.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

26.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

27.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

28.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

30.

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

Hays, Brian

31.

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.

32.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

35.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

36.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

37.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

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

41.

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

42.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

43.

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

Osler, Sir William

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

46.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

47.

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.

48.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

49.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

50.

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

Burke, Edmund