Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Hill, Napoleon

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Bible

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

Hays, Brian

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

10.

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.

11.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

12.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Elliott, Walter

18.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

19.

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.

20.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

29.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

32.

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

33.

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

Keller, Helen

34.

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

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

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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.

38.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

39.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

40.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

41.

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.

42.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

43.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

44.

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

45.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

46.

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

48.

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

Corbett, James J.

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