Inspiring Perseverance: A Collection of Quotes to Keep You Going

"A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- James Watkins

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Walter Elliot

"I have failed again and again throughout my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Albert Einstein

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Julie Andrews

"Perseverance is the act of true champions."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Perseverance is the act of continuing to move forward, even when you want to give up."

- Rachel Scott

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Perseverance is the ability to hold on to a goal long enough to achieve it."

- Andy Grove

"Perseverance is the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up - to push on in spite of pain, setbacks, and losses."

- J.C. Watts Jr

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- John Quincy Adams

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Marie Curie

"The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it."

- Kalpana Chawla

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"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 must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about."

- Winston Churchill

"Going one more round, when you don’t think you can, that’s what makes all the difference."

- Sylvester Stallone

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"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

"Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing."

- Michael Chiesa

"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."

- Gillian Anderson

"Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut instinct."

- Paula Abdul

"I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"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

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

- George Eliot

"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."

- Scott Hamilton

"Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Don’t give up in times of difficulty. Persevere on as there will be an end to these."

- Edward Dunedin

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."

- Lao Tzu

"I do not think that 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

"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, secret of all triumphs."

- Victor Hugo

"The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance."

- Sun Yat-sen

"No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."

- Ramana Maharshi

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

- Joseph Addison

"Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."

- Ambrose Bierce

"Perseverance and perspective until victory."

- Lincoln Diaz-Balart

"Remember, it isn’t the dreamers who have good lives – it’s the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance."

- Homer Hickam

"You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance."

- Lou Holtz

"Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory."

- Jocko Willink

"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours."

- Orison Swett Marden

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"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

"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

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

- A.A. Milne

"No pressure, no diamonds."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- William Feather

"We will either find a way or make one."

- Hannibal

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."

- C.C. Scott

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

- Dolly Parton

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!"

- Marvin Phillips

"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."

- Charles F. Kettering

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt