Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

This lady is not for turning.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Perseverance

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Keller, Helen

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

Osler, Sir William

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

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

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Ovid

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

Howard, Curly

10.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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.

12.

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

Elliott, Walter

13.

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

14.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

15.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

16.

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.

17.

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

Lovell, Jim

18.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

26.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

28.

I will hold.

Motto

29.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

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

Ruth, Babe

31.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

32.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

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.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

38.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

43.

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

44.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Burke, Edmund

47.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Hays, Brian