Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

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

Keller, Helen

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

Euripides

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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.

11.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

12.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

14.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

15.

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

Askenberg, J.

16.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

17.

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

18.

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

Hays, Brian

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.

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

Ovid

21.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

22.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

23.

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

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Hays, Brian

27.

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

Elliott, Walter

28.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

29.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

33.

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

34.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

35.

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

Howard, Curly

36.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

37.

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.

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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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.

40.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

41.

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

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

Bible

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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

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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

45.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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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.

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

48.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.