Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

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

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

Bradley, Tom

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hill, Napoleon

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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

Lucretius

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

Keller, Helen

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Euripides

13.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Billings, Josh

15.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

16.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Samuel Johnson

21.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

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

25.

I will hold.

Motto

26.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

27.

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

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

30.

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

Wickman, Bob

31.

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

32.

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

Ruth, Babe

33.

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

Askenberg, J.

34.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

36.

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

37.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Petty, Richard

41.

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

Collier, Jeremy

42.

Persevere and get it done.