Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Askenberg, J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Hays, Brian

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

Nixon, Richard M.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

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

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

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

Corbett, James J.

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.

10.

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.

11.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

12.

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

Lucretius

13.

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.

14.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

17.

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

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

Hilton, Conrad

19.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

20.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

21.

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

22.

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

23.

I will hold.

Motto

24.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

25.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

26.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

27.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

28.

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

29.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

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

31.

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

Samuel Johnson

32.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

33.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Howard, Curly

35.

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

36.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcpherson, Rene

39.

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

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.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

42.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

45.

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

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Wickman, Bob

48.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

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

50.

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