Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Petty, Richard

Best Quotes about Perseverance

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

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

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Keller, Helen

11.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

12.

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

13.

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

Ovid

14.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

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

Howard, Curly

21.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

22.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

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

28.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

29.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

33.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

34.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

35.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

36.

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

Hilton, Conrad

37.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

38.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

39.

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

40.

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

Einstein, Albert

41.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

42.

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

Collier, Jeremy

43.

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

44.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Hays, Brian

47.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

48.

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

Ruth, Babe

49.

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

50.

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