Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Jessel, George

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ovid

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

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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.

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

Howard, Curly

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

Euripides

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

14.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

15.

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

16.

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

Hays, Brian

17.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

22.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

23.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

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

Lucretius

26.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

31.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

35.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

39.

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

Keller, Helen

40.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

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

42.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

43.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Askenberg, J.

47.

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

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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

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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.