Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Perseverance

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

I will hold.

Motto

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

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

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

Bible

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

Euripides

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

Keller, Helen

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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

Samuel Johnson

10.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

11.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Petty, Richard

14.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

15.

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

Wickman, Bob

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

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

19.

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

Lovell, Jim

20.

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

Ruth, Babe

21.

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.

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

26.

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

Jessel, George

27.

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

Burke, Edmund

28.

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

Ovid

29.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

30.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

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

Osler, Sir William

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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

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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

35.

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

Christopher Reeve

37.

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

38.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

39.

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

40.

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

Hilton, Conrad

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

43.

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.

44.

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.

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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

46.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

47.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

48.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

49.

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

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie