50 Quotes About Perseverance

List Of 50 Quotes About Perseverance To Spark Your Inner Brave:

#1 Martin Luther

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

#2 Steve Blank

”Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work – in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don’t help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.”

#3 Ovid

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

#4 Julie Andrews

”Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

#5 Marilyn Monroe

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”

#6 Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”

#7 Paula Abdul

”Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.”

#8 Marie Curie

“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.”

#9 Criss Jami

“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”

#10 F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

#11 Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

#12 Anthony Robbins

“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”

#13 Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

#14 Jocko Willink

”Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.”

#15 Abraham Lincoln

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

#16 Abraham Lincoln

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

#17 Douglas MacArthur

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

#18 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

”Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have the perseverance to realize the great life.”

#19 Lady Aberdeen

“The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.”

#20 Thomas A. Edison

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

#21 Ramana Maharshi

“No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”

#22 John Quincy Adams

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”

#23 Benjamin Disraeli

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”

#24 Nelson Mandela

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

#25 Winston S. Churchill

“Never, never, never give in!”

#26 Thomas Fowell Buxton

“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

#27 Lemony Snicket

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”

#28 Newt Gingrich

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

#29 Maya Angelou

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

#30 Confucius

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

#31 Benjamin Franklin

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

#32 Charles F. Kettering

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”

#33 Babe Ruth

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

#34 Vince Lombardi Jr.

“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.”

#35 Winston S. Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

#36 Napoleon Hill

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

#37 Henry Ward Beecher

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.”

#38 Steve Jobs

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

#39 H.G. Wells

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

#40 Flavia Weedn

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”

#41 Lance Armstrong

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”

#42 Samuel Johnson

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”

#43 C.J. Redwine

“It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.”

#44 Dale Carnegie

“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.”

#45 Azim Premji

”The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.”

#46 Woodrow Wilson

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”

#47 Benjamin Disraeli

”Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”

#48 Mark Twain

“A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.”

#49 Charles de Gaulle

“A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.”

#50 Isak Dinesen

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”

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References

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt/
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt