Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

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.

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

Euripides

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

Corbett, James J.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Bible

10.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I will hold.

Motto

14.

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

Lucretius

15.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

16.

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

17.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

18.

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.

19.

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

Ovid

20.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

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

Askenberg, J.

30.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

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

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

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

Ruth, Babe

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Howard, Curly

44.

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