Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Ruth, Babe

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

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

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

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.

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

Collier, Jeremy

10.

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

Keller, Helen

11.

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

Elliott, Walter

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

Lucretius

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Nicklaus, Jack

19.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Mcpherson, Rene

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.

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

Jessel, George

22.

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

Wickman, Bob

23.

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

24.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

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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.

30.

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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Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Euripides

33.

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

34.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

35.

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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

37.

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

38.

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

Hays, Brian

39.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Hill, Napoleon

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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

42.

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

Corbett, James J.

43.

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

44.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

45.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

46.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

47.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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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

49.

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

Ruth, Babe

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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