Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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

Hays, Brian

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

Osler, Sir William

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

10.

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

11.

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

Herhiser, Orel

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.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

16.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

17.

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

18.

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

19.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

21.

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

Corbett, James J.

22.

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

23.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

26.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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

Euripides

28.

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

Wickman, Bob

29.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

33.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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.

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

39.

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

40.

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

41.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

42.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

43.

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

Bradley, Tom

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

47.

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.

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

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.

50.

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