Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Mcpherson, Rene

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bible

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

Keller, Helen

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.

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

11.

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

12.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

13.

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

Lovell, Jim

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

Christopher Reeve

16.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

23.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

24.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

25.

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

Wickman, Bob

26.

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

Herhiser, Orel

27.

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

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

31.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

32.

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

33.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

34.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

35.

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

Petty, Richard

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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

37.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

38.

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.

39.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

40.

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

Ruth, Babe

41.

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

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

44.

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

45.

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

Bradley, Tom

46.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Elliott, Walter

48.

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

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.

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

Collier, Jeremy