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

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

Bible

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

Samuel Johnson

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

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

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Hays, Brian

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

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Bradley, Tom

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Askenberg, J.

22.

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

Burke, Edmund

23.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

24.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

25.

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

Petty, Richard

26.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Corbett, James J.

36.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

37.

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

38.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

39.

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

Wickman, Bob

40.

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

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

44.

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

45.

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

Christopher Reeve

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

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

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