Perseverance Quotes

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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.

Lord Chesterfield

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton 

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Og Mandigo

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Seneca

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

William Cobbett

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

Helen Keller

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. 

Abraham Lincoln

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

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

Albert Einstein

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

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

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

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

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

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Napoleon Hill

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Josephus Daniels

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge 

Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on.

Virgil

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