Perseverance Quotes

"There is no finish line."

- Unknown (band director)

"If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Every flower must grow through dirt."

- Laurie Jean Sennott

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower."

- Susan Wittig Albert

"I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance too?"

- Jill Konrath

"You must always pass through failure on your way to success."

- Mickey Rooney

"It’s like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there."

- Josh Billings

"It makes no difference how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop."

- Confucius

"Success is not final, and failure is not fatal: what matters is the determination to keep going."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"Walking from failure to failure with enthusiasm is what defines success."

- Winston Churchill

"There are two types of patience. One is exercised in hard work and the other in idleness. Patience with hard work is the one that moves mountains. Patience in idleness moves nothing, not even cobwebs."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"I encourage everyone struggling to run on pure spite for the status quo. We need numbers, and we can do it together."

- Quin Pox

"Life can show up no other way than the way in which you perceive it."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water."

- Katherine Kelly

"As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath."

- Alexander Skarsgard

"Act like a duck. Be calm on the surface, but paddle like hell underneath."

- Oliver Luck

"I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am."

- Michael Jackson

"It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward."

- Randy Pausch

"Fall six times, stand up seven."

- Japanese Proverb

"Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down."

- John Wayne

"Bowling is a game of mistakes. The one who makes the fewest mistakes wins."

- Don Carter

"We love Him when we want to love Him, and when we keep trying in spite of our failures."

- St. Therese of Lisieux

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all, confidence in ourselves."

- Marie Curie

"It’s not always the fastest or the strongest who win, but those who refuse to lose."

- Unknown

"Despite all the challenges you’ve faced, you always manage to keep a smile on your face. Thank you for showing me what true perseverance looks like. I love you, my friend!"

"Never, never ever give up."

"The Champion He was a man of flesh and blood, he wasn’t made of rock. Angel, devil, child - - - a man of ordinary stock. But somehow he was different - - - true athletes always are, for though he cursed, and bled, and sweat, he prided in the scar. They told him to win like a man, no matter what the cost; so many times he ventured forth; so many times he lost. And when they turned around, and said, “it’s ok, son you tried,” he clenched his headgear in his fist, and like a man, he cried. But from his tears came anger: then, when it ceased to spin, he rose again, determined that the next time, he would win. His trembling body strengthened; his heart soared in the sky, and his darkened soul stood flaming with the fire in his eye. And so he worked relentlessly; he struggled and he strained. His conscience whipped him mercilessly for every ounce he gained. He ran on legs like pistons; his muscled arms grew sore; he’d tell himself, “I have to,” then ask himself, “what for?” And then, at last, the reckoning: the final hour was here. His stomach lightened dangerously, his muscles tensed with fear. Weak-kneed, he shook the challenger’s hand - - - and then, as one possessed, his instincts gave him power, and his body did the rest. It suddenly was ended. His body seemed to scatter. A crowd was cheering somewhere, but to him, it didn’t matter. One thought was gleaming in his brain - - - a thought that made him smile: he’d given all he had, and that’s what made it all worthwhile. He stood and faced his teammates, with pride instead of shame. He knew not that he’d won or lost, but that he’d played the game. And some call him the wrestler, and some call him a man, but he called himself a winner, and the ref held up his hand."