Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Lovell, Jim

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Petty, Richard

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

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.

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

Bible

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Samuel Johnson

15.

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

16.

I will hold.

Motto

17.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

18.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

21.

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

Burke, Edmund

22.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

23.

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

24.

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

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

31.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

32.

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

Howard, Curly

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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.

34.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

35.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

36.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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

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

Herhiser, Orel

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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

44.

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

45.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

46.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

47.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

48.

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

49.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Hill, Napoleon