Perseverance Quotes

"It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up."

- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

"It’s okay to struggle, but it’s not okay to give up on yourself or your dreams."

- Gabe Grunewald

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."

- Abraham Lincoln

"A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places."

- Paul Gardner

"Art is never finished, only abandoned"

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

- Andre Gide

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can’t attain it in anything."

- Eugene Delacroix

"One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

""I trained 4 years to run only 9 seconds. There are people who do not see results in two months, give up and quit.""

- Usain Bolt

"Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Sometimes you have to make the hardest climb to see the most beautiful sunrise."

- Leslie Knope

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."

- Ronald Reagan

"I’ve had to learn to fight all my life—got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile, things will work out."

- Serena Williams

"I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick."

- Robert Powell

"You don’t drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there."

- Robert Jordan

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

- James Russell Lowell

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus."

- Hebrews 12:1-2

"Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him."

- James 1:12

"If all you can do is crawl, start crawling"

"By the yard it’s hard but inch by inch, anything is a cinch!"

"Don't give up."

"the day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit."

""Just stick with it. What seems hard now will one day be your warm-up.""

""26.2 miles is a helluva long way for everything to go right and a helluva long way for just one thing to go wrong. Legs feed the wolf. Pain is weakness leaving your body. Run the mile you're on. Some days my best is a PR, others it's just putting one foot in front of the other.""

"Failure is not fatal, and success is not final: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Never give up on practising medicine, for that is the place and time when the tide will turn."

"If you aren’t willing to keep looking for light in the darkest of places without stopping even when it seems impossible, you will never succeed."