Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Lucretius

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

Ross, Percy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Smith, Sydney

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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.

10.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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

12.

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

Herhiser, Orel

13.

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

Hays, Brian

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

22.

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

Ovid

23.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Lovell, Jim

29.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

30.

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

31.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

32.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

Thackeray, William M.

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

Burke, Edmund

38.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

39.

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

Petty, Richard

40.

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

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

Elliott, Walter

42.

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

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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

44.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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.

49.

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

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie