Perseverance Quotes

"Sooner or later your work speaks for itself. Outlasting critics feel like it will take a very long time, but you’re more patient than they are."

- Seth Godin

"I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. 26 times I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"While the journey seems long and hard at the beginning, with perseverance and dedication, the rewards at the end last a lifetime."

- Dr. William R. Francis

"You're running on guts. On fumes. Your muscles twitch. You throw up. You're delirious. But you keep running because there's no way out of this hell you're in because there's no way you're not crossing the finish line. It's a misery that non-runners don't understand."

- Martine Costello

"Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder."

- William Sigei

"You can never be sure. That’s what makes the marathon both fearsome and fascinating. The deeper you go into the unknown, the more uncertain you become. But then you finish. And you wonder later, ‘How did I do that?’ This question compels you to keep making the journey from the usual to the magical."

- Joe Henderson

"Your legs will ache. Your mind will get fuzzy and you’ll just want the thing to be over. But, you must fight. You must keep going just like you did in training runs. Just get to the next mile marker and then the next and so on."

- Greg McMillan

"Endure and survive."

- Ellie

"Never give up. Trust your instincts."

- Peppy Hare (Lylat Wars/Star Fox 64)

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”"

- Rudyard Kipling

"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

- Elihu Root

"“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”"

- Florence Nightingale

"“Nursing is one of the fine arts: I had almost said ‘the finest of fine arts.”"

- Florence Nightingale

"“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”"

- Winston Churchill

"Push through the pain. Giving up hurts more."

- Vegeta

"Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation."

- Coretta Scott King

"You’d think one day we’d learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that."

- Larry Kramer

"Push through the pain, giving up hurts more."

- Vegeta

"It's only when we're pushed to our absolute limits that we can truly shine"

- Vegeta

"Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him."

- James 1:12

"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future."

- Philip Emeagwali

"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 trained with Shaolin monks in China and I faced a lot of limitations I had to get over. I got hurt, I got injured, I got tired, but I always came back for more because my brain told me I could overcome it all. It was a mental puzzle I was being asked to solve."

- Dan Hardy

"Never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

- Winston Churchill

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

- James 1:2-4

"The person who starts the race is not the person who finishes the race."

"Harder the struggle, more glorious the triumph!!!"

"You can't skip chapters, that's not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won't enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don't want to read, you will have moments when you don't want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, don't miss out."

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win"

"You didn't come this far to only come this far."