Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Hays, Brian

I will hold.

Motto

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

11.

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

Keller, Helen

12.

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

13.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

14.

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

15.

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

Jessel, George

16.

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

Ovid

17.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Lucretius

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

22.

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

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

Hays, Brian

24.

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

Howard, Curly

25.

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

Hilton, Conrad

26.

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

27.

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

Samuel Johnson

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

32.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

33.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

38.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

39.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

43.

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

Wickman, Bob

44.

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

45.

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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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

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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

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

49.

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