Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

- O'Brien, Dan

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ross, Percy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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

10.

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

11.

When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

12.

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

13.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

14.

I will hold.

Motto

15.

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

Bible

16.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

24.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

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

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

30.

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

31.

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

Osler, Sir William

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

35.

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

Wickman, Bob

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

41.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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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

47.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

48.

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

Euripides

49.

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

50.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice