Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

All great achievements require time.

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

Euripides

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

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

Mcpherson, Rene

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

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Ovid

10.

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.

11.

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

Corbett, James J.

12.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

14.

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

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

18.

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

Lovell, Jim

19.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

20.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

21.

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

22.

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

Nixon, Richard M.

23.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

25.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

27.

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.

28.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Hays, Brian

30.

I will hold.

Motto

31.

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

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

Samuel Johnson

33.

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

34.

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

Wickman, Bob

35.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

36.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

37.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

38.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

39.

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

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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

41.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

43.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

48.

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

49.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Hill, Napoleon