Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Jessel, George

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

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.

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

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

Howard, Curly

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Bible

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Ross, Percy

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

12.

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

13.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

14.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

18.

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

Hays, Brian

19.

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

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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

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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

22.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

26.

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

Ruth, Babe

27.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

28.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

30.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

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

Burke, Edmund

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Lucretius

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nixon, Richard M.

37.

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

38.

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

Bradley, Tom

39.

I will hold.

Motto

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

45.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

46.

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

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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

48.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

49.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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