Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Howard, Curly

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

Ross, Percy

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.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

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

Askenberg, J.

10.

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

Samuel Johnson

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Herhiser, Orel

19.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

29.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

30.

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

31.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

32.

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

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Ruth, Babe

35.

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

Bradley, Tom

36.

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

37.

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

Hays, Brian

38.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

40.

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

41.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

42.

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

43.

I will hold.

Motto

44.

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

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

47.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

48.

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