Perseverance Quotes

Enjoy these inspirational perseverance quotes. Words from famous people who have experieinced the benefit of persevering. People who never give up no matter what challenge they faced. This skill is one that is essential to any success. We hope you enjoy these quotes and sayings.
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"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." Napoleon Hill

"How long should you try? Until." Jim Rohn

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." John Quincy Adams

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." Benjamin Disraeli

"Try and fail, but don't fail to try." Stephen Kaggwa

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius." Joseph Addison

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

"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

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." Elbert Hubbard

"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 the most persevering." Napoleon Bonaparte

"Follow your dreams of a better world, and keep on trying, even when there seems to be little hope, because it is the right thing to do." Robert Alan

"Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have." Woodrow Wilson

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance." H. Jackson Brown

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." Plutarch

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

"The best among us are not more gifted than the rest. They just take little steps each day as they march toward their biggest life." Robin Sharma, The Greatness Guide



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Inspirational Perseverance Quotes

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." Dale Carnegie

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance." Abigail Adams

"Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements." Joseph P. Wirthlin

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." Japanese Proverb

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." Thomas Carlyle

"It always seems impossible until it's done." Nelson Mandela

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Perseverance kills the game." Spanish Proverb

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." George E. Allen

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." Julie Andrews

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

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. 'Here comes number seventy-one!'" Richard M. Devos

"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

"Adversity isn't set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance." Byron Pulsifer

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." Henry Ward Beecher

"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying." Tom Hopkins

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking." Og Mandino

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

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs." Victor Hugo

"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence." Joyce Brothers

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." B.C. Forbes

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." Helen Keller

"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible." Lord Chesterfield

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." Walter Elliott

"Perseverance allows you to get back on track when you hit a detour." Catherine Pulsifer

"It's always too soon to quit!" Norman Vincent Peale

"Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall." Sydney J. Harris

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." William Feather

"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything." Vincent Lombardi

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

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." Marie Curie

"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success." David Sarnoff

"Persistence is a secret. Successful people know the secret - they realise that it is the main ingredient in winning at anything." Andrew Matthews, Being Happy!

"When one gets to the place that seems impossible to go over or under or around - that is the place that decides victory or defeat. One's ability to persist at that point makes his victory." Dorothea Kopplin, Something to Live By

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein