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Are you dealing with trying circ*mstances? These perseverance quotes will make you steadfast in the face of adversity until you complete your goals.
Perseverance is about more than never giving up. It marks a continuous effort at something over a long time horizon. A single-minded and tenacious effort, no matter how arduous the task.
Great people throughout history have accomplished enormous goals by persevering when all seemed lost. In that spirit, here are the best perseverance quotes to drive you toward accomplishing your objectives.
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Top 10 Perseverance Quotes
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Perseverance conquers nations, its attainments are beyond limit.
Amie Smith
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
It’s always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale
You must keep at it, someday soon your perseverance will reap rewards.
Domenico Mazza
Ardent interest, focused practice, and perseverance are pillars for the solid stone foundation of success.
Lee David Daniels
Quotes about Perseverance
Perseverance conquers all things; it is the key to success. Keeping on is good but keeping on keeping on to the end wins the day, every time.
S. E. Adkins
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Patient effort, perseverance and hard work each day properly directed will surely bring success.
Malcolm D. Lambournne
Perseverance is a behavior, a purposeful action to pursue a goal or task despite obstacles.
Laila Sanguras
Nothing in the world can replace perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
Gary Hamel
Every time you fail and get back up. You practice perseverance, which is the key to life. Your strength comes in your ability to recover.
Michelle Obama
No matter what may be happening in your life, it is encouraging to learn how other people have persevered and found their silver linings.
David Mezzapelle
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Abrose Bierce
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.
Confucius
It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
Lynn Davies
Perseverance is the guide-post to success and achievement and the road to pleasure and happiness.
Charles Francis Glass
Part of life is understanding that real change and progress comes with dedicated perseverance but also realizing that challenges, obstacles and roadblocks will appear from time to time.
Robert Rivers
The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.
Robin Sharma
A will finds a way.
Orison Swett Marden
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 speaks to a refusal to give up the pursuit of a goal despite attendant difficulties.
Lisa Marie Stringer
One of these conditions is perseverance, that is, the motivation to keep going forward with your plan because you believe in it, even when you face roadblocks and when results seem to be too far away.
Gabriel Torres
So, hope is a combination of setting goals, having the tenacity and perseverance to pursue them, and believing in our own abilities.
Brené Brown
There are none so blind as those who will not see and there are none so ignorant as those who don’t have the perseverance to learn.
Ian Gibbs
The affirmation of strong perseverance, of keeping at it, of continuous, undeviating effort, is bound to pay off ultimately if you have the inner compulsion to visualize and keep at it.
Norman Vincent Peale
Don’t worry about genius. Don’t worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination.
Sir Thomas Treves
You don’t need an easier life, but rather an attitude of perseverance.
James Clear
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
E. C. Dowden
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian Anderson
The greatest recipe in life is the one which has more ingredients of perseverance and dedication within the mixture.
B. C. Artworst
Sometimes luck can be that driving force that catapults your life into a storm of success along with hard work, dedication and perseverance.
Zak Frazer
All the performances of human art at which we look with praise or wonder are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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
Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
Paula Abdul
Success at anything requires two vital ingredients: enthusiasm and perseverance. Both can be helped by the broad view that looks beyond temporary difficulties and disappointments to a great goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
The further the reward from the effort, the thinner the competition.
Johnny Uzan
Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.
Michael Chiesa
Having perseverance is all about being able to bounce back and keep moving forward.
Jason Scotts
The three P’s Practice, perseverance and patience are the qualities you will need in order to become the author of your own story.
Robin Roberts
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
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
Life is not easy for any of us. 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
Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
Perseverance was forged in the fires of your own determination. Its powers are activated when we ignore the negativity and keep working towards our goals.
Jake Smith
Think about your capabilities, your strength, your perseverance, and your resilience. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Kate Anderson
Perseverance is the quality that enables weak men to become the equals of strong men.
M. A. Dunn
We can better enjoy the blessings we get from perseverance, as they have a higher value than things easily gotten, and we keep them longer and treasure them higher on account of the persevering effort we made to get them.
Charles Francis Glass
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller
The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.
James Clear
Being genuinely happy is something that take practice, perseverance, and patience.
Dr. Lauren Cunning, Hardwiring Happiness
A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.
Robert Kraft
One day someone is going to come to you and ask how you did it. Because you were creative, because you persevered, because you persisted through the resistance, you will be able to hold your chin up and help someone else overcome.
David DeNotaris
If you still feel tempted to throw in the towel, read these 6 Things to Ask Yourself When You Feel Like Quitting to evaluate your thought process.
Persevere Quotes
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Lord Chesterfield
To persevere in life one must have that stick-ability to do as we aim, to go onward toward progress no matter what incumbrances affront us.
Stella W. Scharff
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
To persevere in one’s duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.
George Washington
In addition to the well-known people who had to persevere, there have been countless others whose names we do not know, but whose failures or mistakes became some of the best-known, best-selling products in the world today.
Joyce Meyer
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
To persevere in life one must have that stick-ability to do as we aim, to go onward toward progress no matter what incumbrances affront us.
Stella W. Scharff
During difficult seasons we gain strength and learn to persevere.
Scott Gordon, Tough Times Cannot Last Forever
Anyone can start something. No one quits right before the prize. The middle sets people apart.
Johnny Uzan
To persevere means having the ability and the composure to hold back and wait for something to happen without feeling anxious, becoming irritated or panicked.
Remi Duyile
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Don’t let yourself be intimidated by obstacles. When you persevere they will melt away.
Lance Dale
If you can just maintain that consistent energy in one direction, it’s incredible what you could deflect over a long period of time.
Hugh Howey
When we choose faith over fear, trusting that God can make a way where there is no way, we can persevere through the changing seasons of life.
Candy Paull
In one word mental fortitude is grit, the ability to persevere and maintain passion for long-term goals.
James O’Donnell
By highlighting your past successes, you can gain a better understanding about existing qualities that you would like to preserve or expand upon.
Nathan Arthur
God works all things for good to those who love Him and persevere through to victory.
Faith Marie Baczko
One of the most astonishing human traits: our ability to keeping getting up, lugging ourselves around and doing our stuff day after day.
Alain de Botton
If you dare to believe that God has something great in store for you to do, to accomplish, or to achieve, you must be prepared to persevere in spite of your setbacks and challenges.
Cindy Trimm
Don’t give up in times of difficulty. Persevere on as there will be an end to these.
Edward Dunedin
Instead of viewing failure as the end, successful people persevere and try again.
Skip Powell
To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.
Nathaniel Branden
Grit is such an important thing. You have to fight through the hurt, you have to persevere. Your best self is the one at the other end of that trail of grit. It would be a shame if you never knew that person.
Cindra Kamphoff, Ph.D. Beyond Grit
I want to encourage you to trust God and persevere. Your suffering is not meaningless; it is a process of preparation.
Os Hilman
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable.
Thomas Jefferson
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.
Robert Brault
But if you truly believe, if you genuinely believe towards the cause you are fighting for then you shall persevere.
Jeff Carter
An optimist would be able to encourage the people around him to persevere and ultimately reach the same goal more successfully.
Zoe Meadows
In order to persevere, a person often needs other character attributes such as open-mindedness.
Rohen Phoenix
Dream after dream comes true—or rather is made true by persevering effort.
L. M. Montgomery
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Winston Churchill
The people who stick with things for years and never stop almost always win the race.
James Clear
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle
Sayings for Perseverance
Stick around. Don’t lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.
Mark Ruffalo
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Alfred A. Montapert
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Pauline Kael
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Elvis Presley
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
Leo Tolstoy
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
Remember that sometimes, not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon Musk
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
In the end, everything will be okay. If it’s not okay, it’s not yet the end.
Fernando Sabinno
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quitting does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
Richard Nixon
There’s nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
Muhammad Ali
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Abraham Lincoln
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
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
No great work is ever done in a hurry. To develop a great scientific discovery, to paint a great picture, to write an immortal poem, to become a minister, or a famous general; to do anything great requires time, patience and perseverance. These things are done by degrees, little by little.
W. J. Wilmont Buxton
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener
Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire.
Josh Waitzkin
The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Everyone wants some magic pill – some life hack – that eliminates the need to do the work. But that does not exist.
Jocko Willink
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
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
You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Time to Persevere
Ready to tackle your problems now? Re-read some perseverance quotes anytime you need to get back on track and embolden your resolve.
Perseverance blends focus, determination, and will power into a true mastery of self.
It’s easy not to quit when we have to complete easy tasks or face short-term adversity. It’s another thing entirely when we know the journey will be long and require as much from us as we can give to complete it.
But these perseverance quotes show us that when we commit to persevering, we become greater than we were before. So get out there and persevere today, no matter what you’re going through.
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