Quotes About Perseverance
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Character consists on what you do on the third and fourth tries. - James Michener
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success, they give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. - H. Ross Perot
You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. - Robert C. Savage
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. - B.C. Forbes
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott
Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now. - Dennis Waitley and Reni L. Witt, The Joy of Working: The 30-Day System to Success, Wealth, and Happiness on the Job
Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest. - Unknown Quote
It's always too early to quit. - Norman Vincent Peale Quote
Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the "impossible," we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible...abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish. - Dr. C. E. Welch (founder, Welch's Grape Juice)
There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit. - Unknown
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. - Richard Bach Quote
Persistence is self-discipline in action. - Brian Tracy
How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are no easy victories? One is a tough-minded recognition that the fight for a better world is a long one. - John Garner, No Easy Victories
It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes. - Unknown Quote
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. - Ross Perot Quote
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 Quote
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts. - Coleman Cox
Americans never quit. - Douglas MacArthur Quote
You can do it gradually - day by day and play by play - if you want to do it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of time. - William E. Holl
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton Quote
Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.
- William Arthur Ward
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill Quote
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. - Og Mandino Quote
Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit. - Unknown
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 Allen Quote
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 Quote
Keep going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles Keetering
Never despair, but if you do, WORK ON IN DESPAIR. - Edmund Burke
Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb
If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before! - William James
I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance. - Odd Thomas in "Forever Odd" by Dean Koontz
Worthy things happen to the worthy. - Plautus
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. - Ted Engstrom
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong Quote
I do not think 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
When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going. - Nido Qubein
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. - Vince Lombardi Quote
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. - Bill Clinton Quote
