Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Lovell, Jim

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Bible

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

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

Elliott, Walter

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

Hays, Brian

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

Euripides

I will hold.

Motto

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Petty, Richard

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

17.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

19.

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

Lovell, Jim

20.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

31.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

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

33.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

34.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

35.

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

36.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

37.

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

38.

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

Bradley, Tom

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

Herhiser, Orel

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

44.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

45.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

47.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

48.

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

49.

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

50.

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.