Perseverance Quotes - Persistence Quotes

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Let these persistence quotes and quotes about perseverance help you to never give up.

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha

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People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
- Victor Hugo

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

True courage is taking another small step each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

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

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog
. - Mark Twain

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
- Marie Curie

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

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

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
- Walter Elliot

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

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

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
- Ross Perot

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Hal Borland

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

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 A. Edison

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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