Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Mcpherson, Rene

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lovell, Jim

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

11.

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

12.

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

13.

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.

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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

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

18.

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

19.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

20.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

26.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

27.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

28.

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

29.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

30.

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

Hays, Brian

31.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Einstein, Albert

38.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

39.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

40.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

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

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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

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

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How long should you try? Until.