Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Howard, Curly

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

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.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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.

11.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

12.

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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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

14.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

17.

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

18.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

19.

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

Petty, Richard

20.

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

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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

22.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

Christopher Reeve

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

29.

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

30.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

32.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

33.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

34.

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

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

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

Bible

38.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

39.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

40.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Burke, Edmund

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

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.

47.

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

Corbett, James J.

48.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

49.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

50.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.