Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ruth, Babe

Best Quotes about Perseverance

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bible

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

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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.

10.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

11.

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

12.

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.

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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.

14.

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

Hilton, Conrad

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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

16.

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

Christopher Reeve

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

19.

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

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

I will hold.

Motto

24.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

25.

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

Askenberg, J.

26.

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

27.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

33.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

36.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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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

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

39.

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

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

42.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

43.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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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

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

49.

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

Smith, Sydney

50.

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

Corbett, James J.