Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Engstrom, Ted W.

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

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

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

Herhiser, Orel

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Ross, Percy

16.

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.

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

Bible

18.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

19.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Lovell, Jim

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

25.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

26.

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

Bible

27.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

28.

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

Lucretius

29.

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

30.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

31.

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

Hays, Brian

32.

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

Jessel, George

33.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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

Bradley, Tom

36.

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.

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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

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

Petty, Richard

39.

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

41.

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

Ruth, Babe

42.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

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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.

Henley, William Ernest

44.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

45.

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

Ruth, Babe

46.

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

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

49.

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

50.

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

Keller, Helen