Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Keller, Helen

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

16.

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

Elliott, Walter

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

20.

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

21.

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

Osler, Sir William

22.

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

23.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Hilton, Conrad

25.

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

Christopher Reeve

26.

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

27.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

28.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

29.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

30.

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

Petty, Richard

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Hays, Brian

44.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

45.

I will hold.

Motto

46.

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

47.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

48.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.

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