Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

I will hold.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

Bible

10.

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.

11.

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

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.

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

14.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

15.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

16.

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

17.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

18.

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.

19.

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

Hays, Brian

20.

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

Collier, Jeremy

21.

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

22.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

23.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

26.

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

Robbins, Anthony

27.

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

28.

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

Keller, Helen

29.

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

30.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

31.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

32.

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Ross, Percy

35.

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

Hays, Brian

36.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I will hold.

Motto

38.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

39.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

40.

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

Corbett, James J.

41.

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

Burke, Edmund

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Lovell, Jim

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.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

50.

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