Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

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

- Nicklaus, Jack

Best Quotes about Perseverance

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

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

Bible

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

Collier, Jeremy

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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

Ruth, Babe

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

Askenberg, J.

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

10.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

11.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

17.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Corbett, James J.

22.

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

23.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

24.

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

25.

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

26.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Keller, Helen

30.

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

Mcpherson, Rene

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

33.

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

Riley, James Whitcomb

34.

I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

35.

Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Pine, Arthur

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

41.

All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

42.

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

43.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

45.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

46.

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

Bradley, Tom

47.

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

Howard, Curly

48.

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

Hilton, Conrad

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

50.

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

Nicklaus, Jack