Quotes about perseverance

Plodding wins the race.

— Aesop

Persevere and get it done.

— George Allen

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.

— George Allen

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

— George E. Allen

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

— Julie Andrews

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

— J. Askenberg

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Bible

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

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

— Bible

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

— Ambrose Bierce

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

— Josh Billings

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.

— Bjorn Borg

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

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

— Tom Bradley

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

— Les Brown

A jug fills drop by drop.

— Buddha

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

— Edmund Burke

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

— Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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.

— Thomas Carlyle

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.

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Lord Chesterfield

Never, never, never, never give up.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Jeremy Collier

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

— James J. Corbett

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.

— Gregory Corso

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.

— E. Joseph Cossman

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!

— Richard M. DeVos

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.

— Henry L. Doherty

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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.

— Thomas A. Edison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

— Thomas A. Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

— Thomas A. Edison

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

— Edward Eggleston

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

— George Eliot

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

— Walter Elliott

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ted W. Engstrom

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

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

— Euripides

God Almighty hates a quitter.

— Samuel Fessenden

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.

— B. C. Forbes

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

— Newt Gingrich

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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.

— Samuel G. Goodrich

To be somebody you must last.

— Ruth Gordon

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

— Ulysses S. Grant

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.

— Sidney J. Harris

It matters if you just don't give up.

— Stephen Hawking

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

— Woody Hayes

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

— Brian Hays

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

— Brian Hays

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

— Ernest Hello

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

— William Ernest Henley

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

— Orel Herhiser

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

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.

— Napoleon Hill

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.

— Napoleon Hill

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

— Napoleon Hill

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.

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Conrad Hilton

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

— Curly Howard

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

— Elbert Hubbard

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

— Thomas H. Huxley

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

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.

— Lee Iacocca

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.

— Lee Iacocca

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.

— William James

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Helen Keller

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

— Billie Jean King

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!

— Rudyard Kipling

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Never despair, keep pushing on!

— Sir Thomas Lipton

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

— Titus Livy

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Jim Lovell

Endurance is the crowning quality...

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Lucretius

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

— Lucretius

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

— John Lyly

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.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Rene Mcpherson

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.

— Dr. A. B. Meldrum

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

— Christopher Morley

I will hold.

— Motto

Through struggle to the stars.

— Motto

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

— Jack Nicklaus

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

— Richard M. Nixon

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

— Dan O'Brien

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

— Sir William Osler