Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hill, Napoleon

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

12.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

14.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

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

Samuel Johnson

16.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

17.

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

18.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

19.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, What am I afraid of? I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

Sorbo, Kevin

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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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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

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

Ruth, Babe

25.

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

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

27.

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

Burke, Edmund

28.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Wickman, Bob

34.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

35.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

36.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

37.

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

Herhiser, Orel

38.

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

Ovid

39.

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

40.

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

Petty, Richard

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How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

42.

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

43.

I will hold.

Motto

44.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

45.

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

46.

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

Howard, Curly

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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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.

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

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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.