Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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

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.

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.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

10.

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

Keller, Helen

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

19.

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

20.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

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

22.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

23.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

24.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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.

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

Christopher Reeve

27.

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

28.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

29.

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

Collier, Jeremy

30.

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

Corbett, James J.

31.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

35.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

36.

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

37.

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

Lovell, Jim

38.

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

39.

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

Hays, Brian

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Osler, Sir William

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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

44.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

50.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas