Top 100 Quotes About Perseverance
#1. Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
Hanif Kureishi
#2. Focusing on our individual steps can cure the paralysis and overwhelm, which sometimes occurs when staring into the future.
Charles F. Glassman
#3. There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#5. Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.
Pooja Ruprell
#6. Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.
Tracy McMillan
#7. The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
Eric Ries
#8. Integrity, firmness, and perseverance are qualities that all should seek earnestly to cultivate; for they clothe the possessor with a power which is irresistible - a power which makes him strong to do good, strong to resist evil, strong to bear adversity.
Ellen G. White
#10. We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!
Charles Dickens
#11. Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
H.L. Mencken
#12. He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#13. Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.
Paul Cellucci
#14. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#15. We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
John R. Mott
#17. Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
Walter Savage Landor
#18. The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#19. Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.
Dean Koontz
#20. When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
George Cukor
#21. Get on top of the obstacles
and they become vantage points.
Tom Althouse
#22. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward Burgess Butler
#23. As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we got.
David O. McKay
#24. Your opponents do not want you to persevere;
they are afraid you will succeed.
Your allies want you to persevere;
they will benefit from your success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.
Laura Hillenbrand
#26. All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
Criss Jami
#28. It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them
patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.
Barbara De Angelis
#29. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
Criss Jami
#30. The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#31. Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.
Jonathan V. Last
#32. Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
Abraham Lincoln
#33. Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
Jay Chandrasekhar
#34. The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.
Swami Vivekananda
#35. It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.
Orrin Woodward
#36. Join hands with other protagonists of love and peace and become a love commander.
Pooja Ruprell
#37. Continue on the right path. You have potential ... Don't give up. Don't let yourself get down and quit studying or fighting for what you want. One day something good is bound to happen. You just have to keep at it.
Isabela Pamelli Martins
#38. God's heart ... is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
Mary E. DeMuth
#39. First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.
Jay Maisel
#40. The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.
St. John Climacuslimacus
#41. You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Lou Holtz
#42. A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.
Julia Cameron
#43. A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
Gary Hamel
#44. There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Criss Jami
#45. I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.
Frank Harris
#47. One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#48. God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
Junot Diaz
#49. A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.
Thomas Jefferson
#50. Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition.
Vincent De Paul
#51. Tomorrow you may look up and see me as a lawyer, a doctor, business executive,teacher - or WHATEVER I BELIEVE I CAN BE !My story isn't about nice handles or quickness on the court ,but about HARD WORK, PERSEVERANCE, and FAITH! I know God's blessings ,I can accomplish anything and i mean ANYTHING!!!
Jon-Robert Holden
#52. To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!
Sasha Azevedo
#54. The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.
Swami Vivekananda
#55. Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.
Brother Lawrence
#57. The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right.
Ben H. Winters
#58. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
Amy Bloom
#59. 10 Keys To Success:
Focus
Perseverance
Ability to adapt
Diplomacy
Flexibility
Open to change
Make no excuses
Complain little
Personal responsibility
Faith
Charles F. Glassman
#60. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#61. TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.
John C. Maxwell
#62. Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.
Grace Coddington
#63. Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny
Gino Norris
#64. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Winston S. Churchill
#66. It is perseverance that leads to great accomplishments.
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything
morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.
Suzanne Curchod
#68. What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
John C. Calhoun
#69. Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.
Anna White
#70. Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".
Sherman Alexie
#71. If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.
Dave Ramsey
#72. I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.
Nicholas Sparks
#73. Time as hunger.
Time passing and gazing.
Time as perseverance.
Mountain time.
Time as paper folded to look like a mountain.
Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars.
Anne Carson
#74. Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?
Surya Das
#75. You are enough exactly as you are, whether you believe it or not.
Pooja Ruprell
#76. Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don't give up even when others say, It can't be done.
James E. Faust
#77. Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
Walter Raleigh
#79. My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#81. God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. You got up off the bathroom floor. That's a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all - aside from winning the lottery - all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.
Sarah Spann
#83. Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
John C. Maxwell
#84. Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance.
Agus Ekanurdi
#85. Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.
Traci L. Slatton
#86. The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
Anne Bronte
#87. What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#88. A small tree with large roots will last longer than a large tree with small roots.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#89. Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
Kofi Annan
#90. All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.
Troy Polamalu
#91. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
#92. Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
Denis Waitley
#93. People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
Noah Weinberg
#94. Your dreams won't die until you die don't ever stop believing!
Enock Maregesi
#96. If you are truly flexible and go until ... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
Tony Robbins
#97. Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.
Betty Churcher
#98. Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
Jean De La Fontaine
#99. Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Marden
#100. Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.
Swami Vivekananda
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