Perseverance Quotes

Slow and steady wins the race.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Barack Obama

The more we persist at something, the greater the chances are that we’ll come up with a successful combination.

Scott Sonenshein

Without application the most brilliant talents avail little, while with rightly directed effort persons of very ordinary natural abilities have accomplished wonders.

Ellen G White

If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich

Some people wait it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but because of lack of commitment.

Vince Lombardi

The secret of such commitment is getting past the drudgery and seeing the delight.

Grit has two components: passion and perseverance.

Angela Duckworth

Sticktoitivity.

When you are tempted to abandon your dreams, push yourself to continue one more day, one more week, one more year. You will be amazed at what happens when you refuse to quit.

Nick Vujicic

A girl who is told repeatedly that she’s no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The award goes to her because she has discovered that what we eventually accomplish may depend more on our passion and perseverance than on our innate talent.

Angela Duckworth

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.

David Allen

You can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

Lori Greiner

Step by step the ladder is ascended.

George Herbert

He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 10:22

Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses.

Angela Duckworth

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

James 5:11

It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Sam Levenson

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Philip Sidney

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Hebrews 6:15

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H Schuller

Never, never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

A Quitter never wins, and a Winner never quits.

Napoleon Hill

Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.

Slow and sure is better than fast and flimsy. Perseverance, by its daily gains, enriches a man far more than fits and starts of fortunate speculation.

Charles Spurgeon

No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.

Haruki Murakami

No stopping or turning.

Highway Sign

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured

the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Hebrews 12:2-3

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Napoleon Hill

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it’s done right.

Walt Disney

It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.

Katharine Hepburn

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

James 1:12

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napoleon Hill

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

There is no short cut, no patent tramroad, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul’s path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old.

George Eliot

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential

Winston Churchill

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter for the future.

Nikola Tesla

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

He who wills the end, wills the means.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air,

John Quincy Adams

Commitment eats impossible for breakfast.

Honoree Carder

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Victory belongs to him who has the most perseverance.

Napoleon I

I hold a doctrine to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable.

Sir T F Buxton

Where there’s a will there’s a way.

One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday.

Angela Duckworth

Perseverance will overcome difficulties, which at first appear insuperable; and it is amazing to consider how great and numerous obstacles may be removed by a continual attention to any particular point.

Addison

The extraordinary results effected by dint of sheer industry and perseverance, have led many distinguished men to doubt whether the gift of genius be so exceptional an endowment as it is usually supposed to be.

Samuel Smiles

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world’s wealth; it spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and bids the choicest fruits and flowers spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

S G Goodrich

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Steele

It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the hands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.

Sir J Reynolds

There are no shortcuts to excellence.

Angela Duckworth

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise and wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. Petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.

Samuel Johnson