Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Nicklaus, Jack

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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.

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Christopher Reeve

15.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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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

18.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Lucretius

20.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

21.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

23.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

24.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

25.

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

26.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

29.

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

Samuel Johnson

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I will hold.

Motto

33.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

36.

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

37.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

38.

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

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

Mcpherson, Rene

40.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

43.

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

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

Wickman, Bob

45.

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

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

Ovid

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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

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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

49.

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

Corbett, James J.

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

Smith, Sydney