90 Of The Very Best Perseverance Quotes

~Perseverance Quotes~

1. 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-Marie Curie
2. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did-Newt Gingrich
3. 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
4. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other-Walter Elliot
5. I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory-Anthony Hamilton
6. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20^th-Julie Andrews
7. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish-John Quincy Adams
8. By perseverance the snail reached the ark-Charles Spurgeon
9. 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-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless-Scott Hamilton
12. If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius-Joseph Addison
13. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure-George Eliot
14. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance-Samuel Johnson
15. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure-Benjamin Disraeli
16. Perseverance, secret of all triumphs-Victor Hugo
17. Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success-Ambrose Bierce
18. Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct-Paula Abdul
19. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t-Henry Ward Beecher
20. No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance-Ramana Maharshi
21. Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours-Orison Swett Marden
22. You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance-Lou Holtz
23. Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears-Gillian Anderson
24. Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry-Samuel Smiles
25. Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire-William Godwin
26. Everything that I’ve ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance-Scott Hamilton
27. Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated-Bob Riley
28. The road to perseverance lies by doubt-Francis Quarles
29. I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance-David Rose
30. Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent-William Cobbett
31. There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time-Sophie Swetchine
32. It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential-Lynn Davies
33. My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker-Robert Wise
34. If you are going through hell, keep going-Winston Churchill
35. Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day-A.A. Milne
36. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds-Francis Bacon
37. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required-Winston Churchill
38. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop-Confucius
39. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up-Thomas A. Edison
40. Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything-Marilyn Monroe
41. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back-Abraham Lincoln
42. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones-Confucius
43. It always seems impossible until it’s done-Nelson Mandela
44. Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow-Mary Anne Radmacher
45. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential-Winston Churchill
46. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing-Abraham Lincoln
47. When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on-Franklin D. Roosevelt
48. That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse-Bill Watterson
49. Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit-Vince Lombardi Jr.
50. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will-Vince Lombardi Jr.
51. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat-F. Scott Fitzgerald
52. When things go wrong, don’t go with them-Elvis Presley
53. If you fell down yesterday, stand up today-H.G. Wells
54. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
55. It’s not how we fall. It’s how we get back up again-Patrick Ness
56. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all-Dale Carnegie
57. Hardships make or break people-Margaret Mitchell
58. Keep trying until you have no more chances left-Aimee Carter
59. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense-Thomas A. Edison
60. 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. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?-Lance Armstrong
61. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop-Andy Warhol
62. Where you stand depends on where you sit-Nelson Mandela
63. I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise-Abraham Lincoln
64. In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently-Anthony Robbins
65. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it-Margaret Thatcher
66. Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength-Theodore Roosevelt
67. Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what-Harper Lee
68. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure-Samuel Johnson
69. Giving up is the only sure way to fail-Gena Showalter
70. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems-Mahatma Gandhi
71. You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going-Geraldine Brooks
72. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb-Nelson Mandela
73. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance-Samuel Johnson
74. Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries-James A. Michener
75. There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still-Franklin D. Roosevelt
76. I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life-Madeleine Albright
77. To reach a port we must set sail-Sail, not tie at anchor-Sail, not drift-Franklin D. Roosevelt
78. Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach-Roger Von Oech
79. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it-Woodrow Wilson
80. The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying-John C. Maxwell
81. Remember that what has once been done may be done again-Alexandre Dumas
82. A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight-Brandon Sanderson
83. A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities-Charles de Gaulle
84. Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring-St. Catherine of Siena
85. Everything works out in the end. if it hasn’t worked out yet, then it’s not the end-Tracy McMillan
86. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall-Oliver Goldsmith
87. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
88. He who can have patience can have what he will-Benjamin Franklin
89. Every pain is a lesson-Frank Delaney
90. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something-Franklin D. Roosevelt

~Perseverance Quotes~