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

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keller, Helen

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

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

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

Christopher Reeve

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

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lucretius

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

17.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

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

Hays, Brian

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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.

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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.

24.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

I will hold.

Motto

26.

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

27.

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

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

Bible

30.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

31.

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

32.

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

Smith, Sydney

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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.

35.

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

Askenberg, J.

36.

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

37.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

38.

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

Osler, Sir William

39.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

40.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

41.

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

Samuel Johnson

42.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

43.

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

Ovid

44.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

45.

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.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

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

Bible

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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