Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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.

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

Jessel, George

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

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.

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.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

11.

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.

12.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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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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.

15.

I will hold.

Motto

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

Howard, Curly

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.

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

Ruth, Babe

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Elliott, Walter

34.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

35.

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

36.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Petty, Richard

39.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

40.

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

41.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

42.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

43.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

44.

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

45.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

46.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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.

48.

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

Bible

49.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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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