Perseverance is the unwavering dedication to achieving goals despite obstacles. It combines resilience, determination, and adaptability. Whether personal, academic, or professional, perseverance propels individuals forward, even amid uncertainty. It’s not just about hard work but also about learning from failures. Perseverance distinguishes achievers from others, empowering them to overcome challenges and fulfill their potential.
Perseverance Quotes
1. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
2. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
— Nelson Mandela
3. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”
— George Augustus Moore
4. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
— Abraham Lincoln
5. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier
6. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable”
— Thomas Fowell Buxton
7. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
8. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— Confucius
9. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
— Albert Einstein
10. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
— Vince Lombardi
11. “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
12. “We will either find a way or make one.”
— Hannibal
13. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
14. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “Never, never, never give in!”
— Winston Churchill
16. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
— A. A. Milne
17. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
— Elvis Presley
18. “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
19. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius
20. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas A. Edison
21. “Hardships make or break people.”
— Margaret Mitchell
22. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
23. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
— Francis Bacon
24. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
— Billie Jean King
25. “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
26. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”
— Thomas Jefferson
28. “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
29. “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”
— Lucretius
30. “The best way out is always through.”
— Robert Frost
31. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
— William Feather
32. “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”
— George Washington
33. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
— Seneca
34. “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
35. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
— Babe Ruth
36. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
— Kobe Bryant
37. “If you rest, you rust.”
— Helen Hayes
38. “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
— Christopher Morley
39. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
— Babe Ruth
40. “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.”
— Swami Vivekananda
41. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
— Robert H. Schuller
42. “All great achievements require time.”
— Maya Angelou
43. “It’s always too early to quit.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
44. “Persistence is self-discipline in action.”
— Brian Tracy
45. “Wanting to win isn’t enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.”
— John C. Maxwell
46. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
— Stephen R. Covey
47. “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
48. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
— Napoleon Hill
49. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
— Andrew Carnegie
50. “Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.”
— John Wooden
51. “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
— Vincent van Gogh
52. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”
— Victor Hugo
53. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
— Vince Lombardi
54. “How long should you try? Until.”
— Jim Rohn
55. “Endurance is patience concentrated.”
— Thomas Carlyle
56. “If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.”
— Dave Ramsey
57. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
— Elbert Hubbard
58. “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.”
— Jacob August Riis
59. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
— Henry Ford
60. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at them.”
— David Brinkley
61. “You never fail until you stop trying.”
— Albert Einstein
62. “Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.”
— Mario Quintana
63. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
— Walter Bagehot
64. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”
— Japanese Proverb
65. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”
— David Goggins
66. “Perseverance is strength.”
— Japanese Proverb
67. “All things are difficult before they are easy.”
— Thomas Fuller
68. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
— Anonymous
69. “Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn’t expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.”
— John Wooden
70. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””
— Muhammad Ali
71. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
72. “A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.”
— Napoleon Hill
73. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
— Thomas A. Edison
