Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Don't halt before you are lame.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Perseverance

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

Jessel, George

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

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

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

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

Billings, Josh

10.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

11.

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

Osler, Sir William

12.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

14.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

15.

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

16.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

17.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

18.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

22.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

23.

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

24.

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

Elliott, Walter

25.

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

Petty, Richard

26.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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

Lucretius

28.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

30.

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

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.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

33.

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

34.

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

Ovid

35.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

36.

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

Robbins, Anthony

37.

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

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

39.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

44.

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

Euripides

45.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

46.

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

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It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Herhiser, Orel

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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

50.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.