Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Howard, Curly

Best Quotes about Perseverance

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lovell, Jim

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.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

10.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

11.

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

12.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

17.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

18.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

19.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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.

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

23.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

24.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

26.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

30.

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

Howard, Curly

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

I will hold.

Motto

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

35.

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

36.

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

Corbett, James J.

37.

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.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

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

Ovid

40.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Petty, Richard

46.

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

Hays, Brian

47.

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

48.

Never, never, never, never give up.