Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

- Andrews, Julie

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Euripides

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Collier, Jeremy

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

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

10.

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

11.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

12.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

13.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

18.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

19.

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

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

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

23.

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

Hilton, Conrad

24.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

29.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

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

36.

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

Robbins, Anthony

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

42.

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

Keller, Helen

43.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

44.

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

Howard, Curly

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.

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

47.

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

Petty, Richard

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.

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

50.

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

Ruth, Babe