Perseverance Quotes to Fuel Your Mental Endurance

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