Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Perseverance

1.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

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

Petty, Richard

3.

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

Euripides

4.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

5.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

6.

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

7.

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

8.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

9.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

11.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

12.

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

13.

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

Howard, Curly

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

I will hold.

Motto

23.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Ovid

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Corbett, James J.

31.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

32.

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

33.

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

Herhiser, Orel

34.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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 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.

37.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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.

39.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

45.

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

Bradley, Tom

46.

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

Bible

47.

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