Quotes about perseverance

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

— Ovid

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

— Arnold Palmer

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

— Alice Paul

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.

— Norman Vincent Peale

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.

— H. Ross Perot

He conquers who endures.

— Persius

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

— Richard Petty

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.

— Arthur Pine

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

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

— Proverb

Never say die.

— Proverb

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

— African Proverb

Don't halt before you are lame.

— English Proverb

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

— Japanese Proverb

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.

— Mary Caroline Richards

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.

— Jacob Riis

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

— James Whitcomb Riley

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.

— James Whitcomb Riley

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

— Anthony Robbins

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

— John D. Rockefeller

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.

— Jim Rohn

How long should you try? Until.

— Jim Rohn

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Percy Ross

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

All great achievements require time.

— David J. Schwartz

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.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's always too soon to quit.

— David T. Scoates

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

— William Shakespeare

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

— Samuel Smiles

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.

— Frederick Smith

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

— Sydney Smith

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

— Sam Snead

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.

— Kevin Sorbo

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.

— Robert Strauss

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

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?

— William M. Thackeray

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

— Margaret Thatcher

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.

— Margaret Thatcher

This lady is not for turning.

— Margaret Thatcher

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!

— Sir Thomas Treves

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

— Mark Twain

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

— Mark Twain

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

— Source Unknown

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

— Source Unknown

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

— Source Unknown

I am confident. I never give up.

— Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

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.

— Denis Waitley

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

— Bob Wickman

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

— Tobias Wolff

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

— John Wooden

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.

— William Wordsworth

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

— Zig Ziglar

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

— David Zucker

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

— George Jessel

Either I will find away or I will make one

— Sir Philip Sidney

Believing the fact that we cannot be perfect does never mean to abandon the ceaseless quest for improvement.

— Jhurry Muhummad Anas

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

— A. E. Housman

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.

— Winston Churchill