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

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

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Smith, Sydney

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

Jessel, George

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Samuel Johnson

22.

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

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Ruth, Babe

25.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

26.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

28.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

29.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

30.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

34.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

35.

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

36.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Howard, Curly

40.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

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

42.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

43.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

44.

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

Burke, Edmund

45.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

46.

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

Ruth, Babe

47.

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.

48.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

49.

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

50.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel