Perseverance Quotes
97 hand-picked lines on perseverance
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein →
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas A. Edison →
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius →
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Confucius →
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
— Nelson Mandela →
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela →
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
— Thomas A. Edison →
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt →
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.”
— Amelia Earhart →
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
— Aristotle →
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails.”
— Jimmy Dean →
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
— Og Mandino →
“Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.”
— Unknown →
“It's going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.”
— Unknown →
“The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.”
— Unknown →
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
— Robert F. Kennedy →
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
— St. Jerome →
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. →
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
— Ernest Hemingway →
“Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines.”
— Robert H. Schuller →
“The best way out is always through.”
— Robert Frost →
“Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up.”
— Spryte Loriano →
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill →
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
— Japanese Proverb →
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
— Benjamin Franklin →
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— Confucius →
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt →
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
— James A. Michener →
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
— Walter Elliot →
“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”
— Babe Ruth →
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself.”
— Harriet Tubman →
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”
— Unknown →
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
— Chinese Proverb →
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”
— Jim Watkins →
“Do not judge me by my successes; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
— Nelson Mandela →
“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles is expressed in one word: Commitment.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda →
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
— Mignon McLaughlin →
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”
— Buddha →
“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.”
— Japanese Proverb →
“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
— George S. Patton →
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”
— Calvin Coolidge →
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
— Maya Angelou →
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be failure.”
— Benjamin Disraeli →
“Never, never, never give up.”
— Winston Churchill →
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
— William Barclay →
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
— Kenji Miyazawa →
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
— Helen Keller →
“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
— Winston Churchill →
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance.”
— Marie Curie →
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
— Mahatma Gandhi →
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
— Margaret Thatcher →
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher →
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
— Stephen Hawking →
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill →
“When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters — one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
— John F. Kennedy →
“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.”
— Louis L'Amour →
“It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”
— Vince Lombardi →
“The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.”
— Unknown →
“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”
— George M. Moore Jr. →
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
— Robert H. Schuller →
“Once you choose hope, anything's possible.”
— Christopher Reeve →
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
— Joseph Kennedy →
“The only way out is through.”
— Robert Frost →
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.”
— Pelé →
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
— Harry Golden →
“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.”
— Michael Jordan →
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
— T.S. Eliot →
“Don't give up. Normally it is the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
— Paulo Coelho →
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Be fluid, be soft.”
— Bruce Lee →
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
— Thomas Paine →
“Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.”
— Unknown →
“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.”
— Morris Mandel →
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
— John Quincy Adams →
“He conquers who endures.”
— Persius →
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
— Charlie Chaplin →
“Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
— Ray Kroc →
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
— Albert Einstein →
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
— Bill Bradley →
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
— Douglas Adams →
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier →
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
— Lou Holtz →
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
— Christopher Morley →
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield.”
— Lao Tzu →
“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
— George Lorimer →
“You have to do what others won't to achieve what others don't.”
— Unknown →
“It's always too soon to quit.”
— Norman Vincent Peale →
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
— Zig Ziglar →
“The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.”
— Kobe Bryant →
“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
— Kobe Bryant →
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
— J.K. Rowling →
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
— Edmund Hillary →
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
— Joshua J. Marine →
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
— Walt Disney →
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
— William Ernest Henley →
“Little by little, one travels far.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien →
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo →
“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.”
— Stephanie Bennett-Henry →