Perseverance Quotes

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

- Harriet Tubman

"It's always to soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

""That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.’ Excel!""

- Tom Hopkins

""You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.""

- E.O. Wilson

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus & hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body."

- Seneca

"Do not fear failure but fear not trying."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Do not give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Winston Churchill

""Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.""

- Coco Chanel

""Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.""

- Helen Keller

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

- Thomas Edison

""A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.""

- B.F. Skinner

"It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential."

- Lynn Davies

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

- Thomas Carlyle

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

- Napoleon Hill

"The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination, and persistence."

- Karren Brady

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"The most essential factor is persistence — the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."

- James Whitcomb Riley

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

- Muhammad Ali

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’."

- Muhammad Ali

"It ain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Rocky Balboa

"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds."

- Wilt Chamberlain

"When it seems unworkable and you are ready to quit, victory is close!"

- Tony Robbins

"Don't stop being a good person because of bad people, because you're not being good for the bad in the world but to uphold the good in it."

- Isabella Poretsis

"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it."

- Michael Jordan

"Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best."

- Patrick Beverley