“If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.”
“Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.”
“A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.”
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
“No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.”
“By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.”
“With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
“No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.”
“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
“The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.”
“Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.”
“You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.”
“I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.”
“When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.”
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
“You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.”
“The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.”
“Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.”
“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.”
“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.”
“If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.”
“Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.”
“Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.”
“It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.”