Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Samuel Johnson

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Christopher Reeve

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

10.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Howard, Curly

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

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

Hilton, Conrad

16.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hays, Brian

21.

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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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.

23.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

24.

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

Petty, Richard

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

27.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

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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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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

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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

36.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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.

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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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.

43.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.