Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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.

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

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

Bible

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

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

16.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

21.

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

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

Askenberg, J.

24.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

25.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

28.

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

Lovell, Jim

29.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

30.

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.

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

33.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

34.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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.

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

Howard, Curly

37.

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

38.

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

Keller, Helen

39.

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

40.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Petty, Richard

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

43.

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

Lucretius

44.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

45.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

47.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

48.

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

49.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

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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