Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

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

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

Lovell, Jim

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

10.

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

11.

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

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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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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

14.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

15.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

17.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

18.

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

19.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

22.

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

Lucretius

23.

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

Elliott, Walter

24.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

25.

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

Keller, Helen

26.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

34.

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

Ruth, Babe

35.

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.

36.

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

Jessel, George

37.

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

Askenberg, J.

38.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

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

40.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

43.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Borg, Bjorn

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Herhiser, Orel

48.

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

Hays, Brian

49.

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

Treves, Sir Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon