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

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

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Burke, Edmund

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Ovid

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

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

13.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

14.

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

Petty, Richard

15.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

20.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Lovell, Jim

24.

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

25.

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

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.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

34.

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

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Osler, Sir William

37.

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

38.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

40.

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

41.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

45.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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