Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ovid

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

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

10.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

11.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

17.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Burke, Edmund

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Elliott, Walter

31.

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

32.

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

Smith, Sydney

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Christopher Reeve

36.

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

37.

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

Hays, Brian

38.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

39.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

40.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Hays, Brian

44.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bradley, Tom

48.

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

Askenberg, J.

49.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

50.

I am confident. I never give up.