Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Perseverance

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

I will hold.

Motto

10.

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

11.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

12.

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

13.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

14.

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

Bible

15.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

16.

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

17.

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

18.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

19.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

20.

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

Burke, Edmund

21.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

23.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

24.

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.

25.

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

Christopher Reeve

26.

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

27.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

29.

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

Herhiser, Orel

30.

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

Corbett, James J.

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

33.

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

Ovid

34.

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

35.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

36.

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

37.

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

Hays, Brian

38.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

39.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

40.

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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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

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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

43.

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.

44.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

45.

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

46.

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

Hill, Napoleon

47.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

48.

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

49.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.