Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Lucretius

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Ovid

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

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

10.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

Collier, Jeremy

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

27.

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

Keller, Helen

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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.

34.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Christopher Reeve

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

44.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Samuel Johnson

47.

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

Ruth, Babe

48.

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

Euripides

49.

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

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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