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

Petty, Richard

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

11.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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.

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

Bradley, Tom

14.

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

15.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

16.

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

17.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

18.

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

Collier, Jeremy

19.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

30.

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

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Hays, Brian

33.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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

Hays, Brian

35.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

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.

39.

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

Jessel, George

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.

I will hold.

Motto

42.

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

43.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

Askenberg, J.

46.

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

Wickman, Bob

47.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

49.

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

50.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon