Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Hays, Brian

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Samuel Johnson

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.

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

Bradley, Tom

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

10.

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

11.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

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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

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

Bible

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

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

Keller, Helen

22.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

23.

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

24.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

25.

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

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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

27.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Wickman, Bob

29.

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

Burke, Edmund

30.

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

31.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

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

33.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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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.

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

38.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

39.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

41.

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

Elliott, Walter

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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

43.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

45.

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

46.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

47.

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

Jessel, George

48.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

49.

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

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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