Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Nicklaus, Jack

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Rockefeller, John D.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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

Ruth, Babe

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bible

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

10.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

11.

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

Corbett, James J.

12.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

Euripides

14.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Wickman, Bob

22.

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.

23.

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

Petty, Richard

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

27.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

28.

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

Samuel Johnson

29.

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

42.

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

Hays, Brian

43.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

44.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

45.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

46.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

47.

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

48.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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