Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Bible

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

10.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

16.

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

Ovid

17.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Forbes, B. C.

19.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Collier, Jeremy

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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.

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

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

Nixon, Richard M.

40.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

41.

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

Hays, Brian

42.

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

43.

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

Petty, Richard

44.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Harris, Sidney J.

45.

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

46.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

47.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I will hold.

Motto

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Never despair, keep pushing on!