100+ Perseverance Inspirational Quotes to Fuel Your Determination

"The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance."

- Yngwie Malmsteen

"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

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

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Julie Andrews

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

- Charles Spurgeon

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

- Michael Chiesa

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

- Ramana Maharshi

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

- Sun Yat Sen

"Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

"Nobody starts off as a hero, that does not happen even in films. It is passion, hard work, and perseverance that makes the difference. Dream big, follow your passion and work hard towards fulfilling it and it will pay well."

- Rakshit Shetty

"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."

- Vince Lombardi

"I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory."

- Anthony Hamilton

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

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Walter Elliot

"A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance."

- Gary Hamel

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

- Jocko Willink

"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

"What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery."

- Ellen Ochoa

"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

"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

"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

"From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance."

- Luke Bryan

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

- George Eliot

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct."

- Paula Abdul

"Perseverance is my motto!"

- Madam C. J. Walker

"The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction."

- David S. Rose

"Perseverance and perspective until victory."

- Lincoln Diaz-Balart

"The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers - keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance."

- Bad Bunny

"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

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

- Lou Holtz

"Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time."

- Angela Robinson

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Gillian Anderson

"In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."

- Mao Zedong

"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

"The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations."

- John Muir

"Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

- John Quincy Adams

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

- Newt Gingrich

"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

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."

- Victor Hugo

"Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality."

- Travis Bradberry

"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

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Confucius

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

- William Feather

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

- Nelson Mandela

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- George M. Moore Jr.

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Winston Churchill

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Winston S. Churchill

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."

- Randy Pausch

"Never, never, never give in!"

- Winston S. Churchill

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; 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!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"

- Rudyard Kipling

"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

"Live the Life of Your Dreams When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Winston S. Churchill

"The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are. It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that, and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!"

- Rocky Balboa

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, give, up!"

- Winston Churchill

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough."

- Helen Keller

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it."

- Vince Lombardi

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness."

- Ricky Martin

"Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success."

- Cyrus McCormick

"I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes."

- Wendy Davis

"Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance."

- David Blaine

"I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it."

- Anne Sullivan

"What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful."

- Mark Spitz

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

- Plutarch

"Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

- Albert Einstein

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

- Ovid

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"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

"You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain."

- Tom Hiddleston

"Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right."

- Eric Ries

"Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight."

- Khaled Hosseini

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- James A. Michener

"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Louis Pasteur

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

- Marie Curie

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

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

- Hannibal

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

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"Realize that all setbacks can only stop you in your progress, and you need only step forward to continue. The response to any failure, then, great or small, is simply the decision to continue."

- Steps to Knowledge: the Book of Inner Knowing

"But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance."

- William Julius Wilson

"If you can't run you walk, if you can't walk you crawl, and when you can't do that, you find someone to carry you."

- Mal

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

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

- George Edward Woodberry

"Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student."

- Randi Weingarten

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."

- MLK

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

"What is to give light must endure burning"

- Victor Frankl

"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Steve Maraboli

"It can't rain all the time."

- Eric Draven

"Dude, suckin' at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something."

- Jake the Dog

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

- Martin Luther

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

- Francis Bacon

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

- Ambrose Bierce

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"

- Karen Salmansohn

"The road to perseverance lies by doubt."

- Francis Quarles

"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

- Bill Cosby

"If you feel like no one believes in you. **I** fucking believe in you. There, I said it. Now go out there and do that shit that you want to do."

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried."

"If you're going through hell, keep going. And Remember when things are tough that airplanes take off into the wind, not with it."

"Baby steps are still steps. It isn't about a perfect job, it's a perfect effort. If you gave the best you were able to give in that moment, it is enough, even if today's best looks different from yesterday's."

"You get knocked down you get up again!"

"If I survived you, I can survive anything"

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

"Nothing worth having is easy to obtain..."

"The pain of discipline weighs grams, while the pain of regret weighs tons."

"Never miss twice"

"Past performance predicts future achievement. When a person shows you who they are, believe them"

"One day at a time. Also (another variation), tomorrow is another day. For me, getting through hard times has typically come down to just putting one foot in front of the other without looking too far ahead. Sometimes, when things are really hard, it’s just a hour at a time, or even a minute at a time. Break it down as small as you need to in order to make it more manageable."

"Endeavor to persevere"

"The only way out is through"