Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Ruth, Babe

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Euripides

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wickman, Bob

10.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

11.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

12.

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

13.

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

24.

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

Lucretius

25.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

26.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

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.

29.

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

Bible

30.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

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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.

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

Corbett, James J.

35.

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

36.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

37.

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.

38.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

39.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

40.

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

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

42.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

43.

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

44.

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

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

Hays, Brian

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

Hays, Brian

47.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.