Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Never, never, never, never give up.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Hays, Brian

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.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

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.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

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

15.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

17.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

18.

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

19.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Keller, Helen

22.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

24.

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

Samuel Johnson

25.

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

Petty, Richard

26.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Robbins, Anthony

32.

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

33.

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

Lovell, Jim

34.

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

35.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

38.

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

39.

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

40.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

41.

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

Burke, Edmund

42.

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

43.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

44.

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

45.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

49.

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

50.

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

Lucretius