Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

Best Quotes about Perseverance

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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

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

Ross, Percy

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

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

Mcpherson, Rene

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

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

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

10.

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

11.

This lady is not for turning.

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

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

Bradley, Tom

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

19.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Corbett, James J.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Wickman, Bob

27.

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

Askenberg, J.

28.

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

29.

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

Jessel, George

30.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

31.

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

32.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy, Titus

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Petty, Richard

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

43.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

DeVos, Richard M.

44.

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

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

47.

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

Lucretius

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Euripides