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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

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.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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

Ovid

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

13.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

Ruth, Babe

15.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

Hays, Brian

18.

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.

19.

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

Herhiser, Orel

20.

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

21.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Jessel, George

24.

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

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

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

32.

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

33.

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

34.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

35.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

36.

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

37.

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

41.

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

42.

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

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

Keller, Helen

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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

45.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

Samuel Johnson

47.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

48.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Howard, Curly

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

Hilton, Conrad