persistence picture quotes & images
Go to table of contents
Best persistence quotes
Go to table of contents
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
, inventor
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
, poet
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
, athlete
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
, statesman
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
,
No dream became destiny without plans and persistence.
, author
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
, novelist
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
, physicist
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
, writer
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
, president
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. Proverbs 24:16
,
How long should you try? Until.
, businessman
Either I will find away or I will make one
,
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
, writer
Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.
,
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
, writer
It matters if you just don't give up.
, scientist
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
,
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.
, motivational speaker
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
, politician
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
, athlete
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
, statesman
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
, inventor
The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams.
,
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.
, author
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
, author
Persevere and get it done.
, politician
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4
,
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
, author
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
, poet
If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
,
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
, poet
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
, author
No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
, athlete
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
, coach
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
, physicist
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
, poet
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
, politician
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
, biologist
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
, author
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
, athlete
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
, businessman
The two most powerful weapons are courage and persistence. Nothing can stop a person armed with both.
,
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
, poet
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
, poet
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
, athlete
All great achievements require time.
,
The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.
,
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.
, poet
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
,
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
, politician
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
, entrepreneur
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
, writer
If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
, actor
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
, dramatist
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
, leader
When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.
,
It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.
,
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
, director
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
,
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
, poet
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
, writer
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
, president
Persevere in virtue and diligence.
,
The only way to overcome is to hang in.
, athlete
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
, president
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
, poet
There are no traffic jams in the second mile.
,
Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.
,
Don't halt before you are lame.
,
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
, statesman
To be somebody you must last.
, actress
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
, coach
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
, writer
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
, activist
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.
, philosopher
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
, athlete
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
,
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.
, leader
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
, actor
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
, writer
Failure cannot cope with persistence.
, writer
If someone takes your coat, give him your cloak as well; if he makes you go a mile with him, go with him two. Mathew
,
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
,
A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
, journalist
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
, comedian
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.
, journalist
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
, politician
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
,
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.
, writer
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.
, businessman
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.
, philosopher
Endurance is the crowning quality...
, poet
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
, writer
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.
, scientist
If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
, author
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
, dramatist
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.
, author
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
, psychologist
Never say die.
,
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
,
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.
, politician
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
,
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
, actress
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
, clergyman
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
, inventor
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.
, athlete
Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
,
Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.
,
Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.
,
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
,
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.
, philosopher
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
, clergyman
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
, philosopher
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
, athlete
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.
, poet
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.
, businessman
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
, scientist
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.
,
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.
, inventor
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
, inventor
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
, editor
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.
, author
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
,
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
, poet
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.
, philosopher
God Almighty hates a quitter.
,
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
, writer
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.
,
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.
, journalist
There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
,
If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.
,
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
, critic
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
, poet
I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
,
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.
, historian
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.
, writer
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
, writer
Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
, businessman
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.
,
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?
, writer
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.
,
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.
, businessman
If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!
, judge
We shall build on.On through the cynic
,
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
, writer
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!
, philosopher
Never despair, keep pushing on!
,
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
, poet
I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
,
Authors with good quotes about persistence
Go to table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1
Filter persistence quotes by author
Part 2
persistence pictures quotes
Part 3
Best persistence quotes
