Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Askenberg, J.

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

13.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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

Christopher Reeve

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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.

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

18.

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

19.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

20.

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

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

Bible

22.

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

Lucretius

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

Corbett, James J.

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

Hays, Brian

27.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Petty, Richard

30.

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

32.

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.

33.

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

Bible

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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.

35.

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

36.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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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

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

Lovell, Jim

42.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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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.

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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

45.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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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

47.

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

Hays, Brian

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

49.

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

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

Churchill, Winston