Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Edison, Thomas A.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

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

Bible

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

17.

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

Petty, Richard

18.

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

Herhiser, Orel

19.

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

20.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Fessenden, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

Howard, Curly

23.

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

26.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

Ross, Percy

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

30.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Lipton, Sir Thomas

31.

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

Engstrom, Ted W.

32.

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

33.

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

Osler, Sir William

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

35.

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

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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

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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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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

39.

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

40.

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

Wickman, Bob

41.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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

Ruth, Babe

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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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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Askenberg, J.

47.

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

Keller, Helen

48.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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