Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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.

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Hays, Brian

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

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

10.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

11.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

12.

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

13.

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.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Elliott, Walter

18.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

19.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

20.

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

21.

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

Keller, Helen

22.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

23.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

Howard, Curly

25.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

26.

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

Osler, Sir William

27.

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

Wickman, Bob

28.

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

Samuel Johnson

29.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

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

Ruth, Babe

31.

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

32.

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

Herhiser, Orel

33.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

34.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Bible

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

46.

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Goodrich, Samuel G.

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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

48.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

49.

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

Lovell, Jim

50.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.