Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Hays, Brian

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

Petty, Richard

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

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

Hays, Brian

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

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Jessel, George

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

15.

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

Ruth, Babe

16.

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

Ruth, Babe

17.

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

18.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

19.

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Grant, Ulysses S.

20.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

21.

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

Bradley, Tom

22.

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

Howard, Curly

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

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.

28.

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

Askenberg, J.

29.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

30.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Osler, Sir William

35.

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

Samuel Johnson

36.

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.

37.

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

Euripides

38.

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

Wickman, Bob

39.

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

Burke, Edmund

40.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

41.

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

Herhiser, Orel

42.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

43.

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

44.

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

Lovell, Jim

45.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

46.

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

47.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

48.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

49.

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

Lucretius