Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Bradley, Tom

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

10.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Lucretius

12.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Askenberg, J.

16.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

17.

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

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

22.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Wickman, Bob

24.

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

Hays, Brian

25.

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

26.

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

27.

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

Petty, Richard

28.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

29.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

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

Collier, Jeremy

31.

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

Hays, Brian

32.

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

33.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

34.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

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

Elliott, Walter

41.

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

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

44.

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

Samuel Johnson

45.

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.

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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.

47.

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.

48.

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

49.

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

50.

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

Euripides