Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Corbett, James J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Wickman, Bob

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

Lovell, Jim

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

10.

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

11.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

13.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

18.

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

19.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Ruth, Babe

22.

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

Corbett, James J.

23.

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

Osler, Sir William

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Burke, Edmund

29.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Billings, Josh

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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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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

42.

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.

43.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

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.

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

Bradley, Tom

46.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

47.

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

48.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.