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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Corbett, James J.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

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.

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

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

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.

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

Howard, Curly

11.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Hays, Brian

16.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

17.

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

18.

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

Burke, Edmund

19.

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

Jessel, George

20.

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

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

24.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

25.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

26.

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

Ross, Percy

27.

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

Keller, Helen

28.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

29.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

33.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

34.

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

Hilton, Conrad

35.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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

Bible

38.

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

Lovell, Jim

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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

40.

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

Ovid

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

Nixon, Richard M.

42.

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.

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

Hays, Brian

44.

I will hold.

Motto

45.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.