Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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

Keller, Helen

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

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Christopher Reeve

10.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

11.

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

12.

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

Corbett, James J.

13.

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

Petty, Richard

14.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

15.

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

Wickman, Bob

16.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

17.

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

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Lucretius

22.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

Burke, Edmund

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

27.

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

28.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

32.

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

Hays, Brian

33.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

37.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

38.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

40.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Bible

43.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

44.

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

45.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

46.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

47.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

48.

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

49.

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

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.