Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Burke, Edmund

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

10.

I will hold.

Motto

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Askenberg, J.

17.

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

18.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

19.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

20.

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

Corbett, James J.

21.

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

22.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

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

Ross, Percy

26.

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

27.

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

Wickman, Bob

28.

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

29.

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

Elliott, Walter

30.

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.

31.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

37.

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

Ruth, Babe

38.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

45.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

47.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

48.

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

49.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

50.

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

Hays, Brian