Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Herhiser, Orel

Best Quotes about Perseverance

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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.

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

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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

Bible

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

13.

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

14.

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

Ruth, Babe

15.

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

16.

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

Howard, Curly

17.

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

18.

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

Hays, Brian

19.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

20.

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

26.

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

27.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Lovell, Jim

31.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

32.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

33.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

37.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

38.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

43.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

44.

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

Ovid

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