Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

- Smith, Frederick

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Petty, Richard

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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.

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

Herhiser, Orel

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

10.

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

Ross, Percy

11.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

12.

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

13.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

14.

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

15.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

16.

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

Bradley, Tom

17.

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

Bible

18.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

32.

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

Hays, Brian

33.

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

Christopher Reeve

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

39.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

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

41.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

42.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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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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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

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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

46.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

48.

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

Samuel Johnson

49.

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

50.

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George