Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Perseverance

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lucretius

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

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

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

I will hold.

Motto

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

13.

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

Hilton, Conrad

14.

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

15.

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Corbett, James J.

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.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

20.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

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

28.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

29.

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

30.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

31.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

32.

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.

33.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

Burke, Edmund

37.

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

38.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

40.

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

41.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Ruth, Babe

46.

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

Collier, Jeremy

47.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

48.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

49.

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.

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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian