Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Askenberg, J.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ruth, Babe

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

10.

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

11.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

12.

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

13.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

14.

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

15.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

16.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

19.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

20.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

21.

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.

22.

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

Hays, Brian

23.

When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

30.

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

Hilton, Conrad

31.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

32.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

33.

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

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Petty, Richard

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

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

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

Ross, Percy

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

49.

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

50.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim