Top 100 Quotes About Perseverance
#1. Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.
Misty Copeland
#2. The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.
Robin Sharma
#3. Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.
Oveta Culp Hobby
#4. We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
Wendy Kopp
#5. Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
Scott Hamilton
#6. I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
Julia Cameron
#7. BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.
Andy Kindler
#8. Staring at the mountain requires nothing.
Climbing the mountain requires strength.
Reaching the mountaintop requires perseverance.
Staying at the mountaintop requires wisdom.
Reaching for the stars requires everything.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.
Oscar Micheaux
#10. Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.
Wendy Davis
#11. Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.
A.D. Sams
#12. Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.
David Brooks
#13. What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
Mark Spitz
#14. The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.
Zig Ziglar
#16. It's not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it the smoothness of her skin,
the boldness when she stands or the
perseverance in her heart.
But the condition of her heart, the
gratitude she lives by and her love for God.
Pierre Alex Jeanty
#17. I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.
Martha Roby
#18. I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder ... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Tanya Tucker
#19. I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!
Charles Spurgeon
#20. I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.
St Patrick
#21. That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.
Mark Twain
#22. They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.
William Law
#23. Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
Benjamin Disraeli
#25. Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
Albert Einstein
#26. Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
Swami Vivekananda
#27. Never give up on your dream ... Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.
Tawni O'Dell
#28. There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.
Frances Harper
#29. We are resisting the technological corruption of our humanity with technology. We're also resisting with our thinking, our perseverance, our friendships....In the end, we will find that even the best of tools can do no more than assist us. Certainly they cannot save us
Michael D. O'Brien
#30. A writer's two greatest tools are imagination and perseverance.
Mark Rubinstein
#31. In the end, it's all about perseverance.
Dean Koontz
#32. Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.
Sunday Adelaja
#33. The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#34. My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
Jakob Dylan
#35. The odds may be stacked against you. Yet, I believe, when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of
purpose, passion, and perseverance, you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and the rest of us.
Charles F. Glassman
#36. I do not think 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
#37. All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.
Bradley Joseph
#38. Now more than ever, we need people with the qualities Walt had: optimism, imagination, creativity, leadership, integrity, courage, boldness, perseverance, commitment to excellence, reverence for the past, hope for tomorrow and faith in God. How
Pat Williams
#39. Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
William Godwin
#40. Knowing others is wisdom;
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force;
Mastering the self requires strength;
He who knows he has enough is rich.
Perseverance is a sign of will power.
Lao-Tzu
#41. Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is but perseverance in disguise.
Orison Swett Marden
#42. I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
Jennifer Donnelly
#43. A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
Jayne Mansfield
#46. Trading is a sport of survival, reinvention, and perseverance, even for the successful trader.
Mike Bellafiore
#47. Writers are not paid for their words. They are paid for their perseverance.
John Briggs
#48. No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.
Mia Hamm
#49. To achieve what 1% of the worlds population has (Financial Freedom), you must be willing to do what only 1% dare to do..hard work and perseverance of highest order.
Manoj Arora
#50. One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.
Mauricio Rua
#51. Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.
Molly Ivins
#52. Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.
Samuel I. Prime
#53. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
J.R. Miller
#54. Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.
Manuela George-Izunwa
#56. The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.
Ameen Rihani
#57. In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#58. Every meaningful accomplishment is forged in the fires of perseverance.
Dennis Ricci
#59. Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was a champion in every aspect of life, and he embraced the values that make our country and the worldwide Olympic movement special
Peter Ueberroth
#60. One turns back and submits to fate, changes one's attitude, and finds peace in perseverance.
Hellmut Wilhelm
#61. Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
Merlin Olsen
#62. The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
Henry Parry Liddon
#63. You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.
Chris Gethard
#64. Life is not about possessions, it is about purpose, perseverance and passion.
Farshad Asl
#65. Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.
Behdad Sami
#66. We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.
Tom Golisano
#67. The qualities of a successful man are tenacity, perseverance, courage and the will to win
Sunday Adelaja
#68. No talented person remains a talented without a perseverance.
Lokendra Singh
#69. Becoming successful is a rough journey that carries pain and requires perseverance.
Auliq Ice
#70. Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.
James Heckman
#71. Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
Bob Riley
#72. Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.
Swami Vivekananda
#73. One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
Carolyn Wells
#75. Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.
Bede Griffiths
#76. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
#77. If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#78. All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.
Steve Morse
#79. Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.
Liza M. Wiemer
#80. Commonality can most easily be seen in the seven common traits that all explorers possessed: curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance. Explorers
Martin Dugard
#81. Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.
John H. Johnson
#83. What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
Ellen Ochoa
#84. Stability of heart - commitment to the life of the soul, faithfulness to the community, perseverance in the search for God - is the mooring that holds us fast when the night of the soul is at its deepest dark, and the noontime sun sears the spirit. When
Joan D. Chittister
#85. It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. Our power of perseverance is as that of an eagle. We soar above our challengers.
Ellen J. Barrier
#88. Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
Abhinav Bindra
#89. Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.
Misty Copeland
#90. My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
Robert Wise
#91. The great lesson of my life is perseverance. Never give up. It's like my brother said, "Isn't one minute of pain worth a lifetime of glory?
Louis Zamperini
#92. If it's a nod from society you're looking for, run a marathon. But if it's a life-changing experience of personal strength and perseverance that you want, finish an ultra.
Vanessa Runs
#93. It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.
Cory Monteith
#94. Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield
#95. No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.
William Wilberforce
#96. Perseverance is such a beautiful word. But to experience it means we must first endure the unpleasantness life is sure to always bring our way.
Tony C. Skye
#97. I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.
Sheryl Crow
#98. Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.
Misty Copeland
#99. You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.
Norman Vincent Peale
#100. Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.
Travis Bradberry
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