Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ovid

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Petty, Richard

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

Lovell, Jim

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Osler, Sir William

10.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

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

13.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Wickman, Bob

17.

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.

18.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

19.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

27.

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

Howard, Curly

28.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

29.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Herhiser, Orel

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

33.

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

Collier, Jeremy

34.

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.

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

Christopher Reeve

37.

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

38.

When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

39.

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.

40.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

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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

42.

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

Hays, Brian

43.

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

44.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

45.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

46.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

48.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

49.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon