Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

God Almighty hates a quitter.

- Fessenden, Samuel

Best Quotes about Perseverance

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Samuel Johnson

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

10.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

11.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

12.

I will hold.

Motto

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Askenberg, J.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Herhiser, Orel

20.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

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

28.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

29.

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

30.

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

Ruth, Babe

31.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

32.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

33.

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

34.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

35.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Smith, Sydney

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

40.

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

41.

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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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

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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.

44.

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

Corbett, James J.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

48.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.