Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Petty, Richard

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Keller, Helen

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

Ruth, Babe

I will hold.

Motto

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

10.

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

11.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

13.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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.

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

Wickman, Bob

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

Lovell, Jim

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

26.

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

Billings, Josh

27.

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

28.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

29.

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

Samuel Johnson

30.

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

Corbett, James J.

31.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

32.

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

Hays, Brian

33.

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

Burke, Edmund

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

36.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

Herhiser, Orel

39.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Elliott, Walter

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

50.

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