Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Hays, Brian

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

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

Hilton, Conrad

10.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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.

12.

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

Lovell, Jim

13.

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

Osler, Sir William

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

16.

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

17.

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

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.

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

20.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

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

26.

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

Askenberg, J.

27.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

Corbett, James J.

30.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

31.

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

Burke, Edmund

32.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

33.

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.

34.

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

Collier, Jeremy

35.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Jessel, George

39.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

40.

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.

41.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

42.

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.

43.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

44.

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

Bradley, Tom

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

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

Christopher Reeve

49.

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

50.

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