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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Lovell, Jim

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

10.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

11.

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

Hays, Brian

12.

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

Askenberg, J.

13.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

14.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

16.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

19.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

20.

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

21.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

22.

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

23.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

24.

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

Herhiser, Orel

25.

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

Ross, Percy

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

35.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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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.

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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

38.

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

Billings, Josh

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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.

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

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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.

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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

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.

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

45.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

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

47.

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

Ruth, Babe

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

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.

50.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English