Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Elliott, Walter

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Bible

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

Keller, Helen

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

Billings, Josh

10.

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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 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

19.

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

Ross, Percy

20.

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.

21.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

22.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

23.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

25.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Christopher Reeve

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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

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

33.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

34.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

35.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

36.

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

37.

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

38.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

40.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

41.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

42.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

49.

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

50.

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

Bradley, Tom