Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Perseverance
Quotations & Citations:
If you are going through hell, keep going.
~Winston S. Churchill
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
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
~Author Unknown
When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”~Author Unknown
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
~Dale Carnegie
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
~Author Unknown
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
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
~Josh Billings
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
~Author Unknown
Never, never, never give in!
~Winston S. Churchill
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
~Japanese Proverb
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
~Newt Gingrich
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
~Confucius
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
~Flavia Weedn
He conquers who endures.
~Persius
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.
~Robert Brault
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
~Nelson Mandela
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
~Walter Elliott
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
~Confucius
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
~G.B. Shaw
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
~Winston S. Churchill
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
~Author Unknown
Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
~William Shakespeare
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~Thomas A. Edison
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
~Lucretius
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
~Author Unknown
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~Francis Bacon
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.
~Marilyn Monroe
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~Buddhist Saying
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.
~Vivian Komori
You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
~Joe Namath
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
~Abraham Lincoln
The dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead.
~Dodinsky
I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.
~Author Unknown
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
~Martin Luther
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily.
~Zig Ziglar
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
One may go a long way after one is tired.
~French Proverb
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
~Georges-Louis Leclerc
Pull yourself together and use what you have.
~Betsy Cañas Garmon
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
~Abraham Lincoln
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
~Robert Schuller
Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life.
~Dodinsky
When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
~Elvis Presley
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.
~Robert Brault
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
~Author Unknown
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
~William James
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
~Winston S. Churchill
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
~André A. Jackson
Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!
~Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
~Earl Nightingale
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
~Antonio Porchia
Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
~William Feather
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
~Christopher Morley
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 A. Riis