Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Nixon, Richard M.

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Howard, Curly

12.

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

Hilton, Conrad

13.

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

Hays, Brian

14.

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

15.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

16.

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

Ross, Percy

17.

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

18.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Lucretius

22.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

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

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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

25.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

31.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

35.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Bible

37.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hays, Brian

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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.

40.

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

Lovell, Jim

41.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Askenberg, J.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

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

Osler, Sir William