150 Perseverance Quotes For Inspiration

In a world that often tests our resolve, perseverance shines as a vital trait that propels us forward, even when the going gets tough. Whether you're facing a personal challenge, working toward a long-term goal, or simply needing a boost of motivation, words of wisdom can light the path ahead. Our carefully selected collection of the top 150 perseverance quotes is designed to inspire and energize you, providing the encouragement needed to keep pushing forward. Discover insights from thinkers, leaders, and trailblazers who have walked the road to success, embodying the spirit of resilience and determination. Let their experiences and perspectives serve as a beacon of hope and inspiration, fueling your journey with optimism and strength.

1. “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas A. Edison

2. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” - Winston S. Churchill

3. “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

4. “I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.” - Abraham Lincoln

5. “Whatever gets you through the night” - John Lennon

6. “The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

7. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” - Thomas A. Edison

8. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” - Woodrow Wilson

9. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.” - Mahatma Gandhi

10. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

11. “Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” - Samuel Johnson

12. “Women are never so strong as after their defeat.” - Alexandre Dumas

13. “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

14. “Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.” - Charles Jones

15. “To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

16. “Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.” - David Livingstone

17. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” - James A. Michener

18. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” - Vince Lombardi

19. “Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?” - Albert Camus

20. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” - Newt Gingrich

21. “The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” - Hunter S. Thompson

22. “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” - Isak Dinesen

23. “...remember that what has once been done may be done again.” - Alexandre Dumas

24. “I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going!” - Laura Lynch

25. “Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.” - Tracy McMillan

26. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” - Helen Keller

27. “It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.” - Grantly Dick-Read

28. “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.” - Robert Strauss

29. “Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.” - J.I. Packer

30. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.” - TEDDY ROOSEVELT

31. “Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.” - Liza Wiemer

32. “I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.” - Gustave Flaubert

33. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” - Andy Warhol

34. “I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of my life. After innumerable failures I finally uncovered the principle for which I was searching, and I was astounded at its simplicity. I was still more astounded to discover the principle I had revealed not only beneficial in the construction of a mechanical hearing aid but it served as well as means of sending the sound of the voice over a wire. Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when a man gives his order to produce a definite result and stands by that order it seems to have the effect of giving him what might be termed a second sight which enables him to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” - Alexander Graham Bell

35. “Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.” - F.W. Dupee

36. “Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living.” - Nancy E. Turner

37. “I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.” - Charles Bukowski

38. “it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

39. “The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.” - Julia Cameron

40. “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

41. “A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.” - Julia Cameron

42. “If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.” - L. Frank Baum

43. “Il n'est pas besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer.” - Marcel Pagnol

44. “You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.” - Mary Renault

45. “The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying” - John C. Maxwell

46. “Never lose your passion 2 dream.” - Pablo

47. “It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. ” - Robert Lipsyte

48. “It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, not stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden fruit it longed to taste--and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it.” - Charlotte Brontë

49. “Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.” - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

50. “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” - Roger Von Oech

51. “Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.” - St. John of the Cross

52. “It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.” - Patrick Ness

53. “The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.” - Author-Poet Aberjhani

54. “People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it” - Howard Newton

55. “The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.” - Sophie Kinsella

56. “Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die.” - Langston Hughes

57. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

58. “Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.” - Frank Delaney

59. “Every pain is a lesson.” - Frank Delaney

60. “NEVER GIVE UPNo matter what is going onNever give upDevelop the heartToo much energy in your countryIs spent developing the mindInstead of the heartBe compassionateNot just to your friendsBut to everyoneBe compassionateWork for peaceIn your heart and in the worldWork for peaceAnd I say againNever give upNo matter what is going on around youNever give up” - Dalai Lama XIV

61. “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. “Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.” - Brenda Ueland

63. “Do you want to die, or do you want to die trying? Give up or give it a shot.” - Nick Trout

64. “Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” - Winston S. Churchill

65. “O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!” - Richard Baxter

66. “If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.” - R.A. Salvatore

67. “What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...” - Tennessee Williams

68. “Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!” - Thomas Carlyle

69. “When things go wrong, don't go with them.” - Elvis Presley

70. “You know, most men would get discouraged by now. Fortunately for you, I am not most men!” - PePe Le Pew

71. “Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying.” - Charles Dickens

72. “No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the realm of science. You do have the attitude of the dreamer about you. For that reason, I haven't the heart to argue anymore about this - it is a hopeless talk. And for a simple factory man like me, an effort must be abandoned once its hopelessness is exposed. Only the artist perseveres in such circumstances.” - David Wroblewski

73. “Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.” - Malcolm X

74. “My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.” - George R.R. Martin

75. “It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.” - Rachel Hawthorne

76. “The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ” - Goldie Hawn

77. “He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.” - Al Masudi

78. “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

79. “From Orient PointThe art of living isn't hard to muster:Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend.When someone makes you promises, don't trust herunless they're in the here and now, and just herwilling largesse free-handed to a friend.The art of living isn't hard to muster:groom the old dog, her coat gets back its luster;take brisk walks so you're hungry at the end.When someone makes you promises, don't trust herto know she can afford what they will cost herto keep until they're kept. Till then, pretendthe art of living isn't hard to muster.Cooking, eating and drinking are a clusterof pleasures. Next time, don't go round the bendwhen someone makes you promises. Don't trust herpast where you'd trust yourself, and don't adjust herwords to mean more to you than she'd intend.The art of living isn't hard to muster.You never had her, so you haven't lost herlike spare house keys. Whatever she opens,when someone makes you promises, don't. Trust yourart; go on living: that's not hard to muster.” - Marilyn Hacker

80. “A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.” - Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)

81. “Just do your best," Mom said. "You can't do any better than your best.” - Kim Wayans

82. “Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.” - Aberjhani

83. “Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!” - T.F. Hodge

84. “Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.” - DENG MING-DAO

85. “In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.” - Winston S. Churchill

86. “First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only do not ask me how.” - Heinrich Heine

87. “Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".” - Sherman Alexie

88. “A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.” - David McGee

89. “Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.” - Criss Jami

90. “In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.” - Criss Jami

91. “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” - Criss Jami

92. “Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.” - Criss Jami

93. “Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.” - Brother Lawrence

94. “Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.” - Christina Rossetti

95. “Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.” - Aberjhani

96. “The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothing will disturb it, little less than all things will suffice" to break it. As in the outer members of our frame, there is a vital power inherent in itself that strengthens it against external violence. Every blow that shakes it will serve to harden it against a future stroke; as constant labour thickens the skin of the hand, and strengthens its muscles instead of wasting them away: so that a day of arduous toil, that might excoriate a lady's palm, would make no sensible impression on that of a hardy ploughman.” - Anne Brontë

97. “Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.” - Criss Jami

98. “There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains -- southeastern Utah. A particular tree. A juniper. Large for its species -- maybe twenty feet tall and two feet in diameter. For perhaps three hundred years this tree has stood its ground. Flourishing in good seasons, and holding on in bad times. "Beautiful" is not a word that comes to mind when one first sees it. No naturalist would photograph it as exemplary of its kind. Twisted by wind, split and charred by lightning, scarred by brushfires, chewed on by insects, and pecked by birds. Human beings have stripped long strings of bark from its trunk, stapled barbed wire to it in using it as a corner post for a fence line, and nailed signs on it on three sides: NO HUNTING; NO TRESPASSING; PLEASE CLOSE THE GATE. In commandeering this tree as a corner stake for claims of rights and property, miners and ranchers have hacked signs and symbols in its bark, and left Day-Glo orange survey tape tied to its branches. Now it serves as one side of a gate between an alfalfa field and open range. No matter what, in drought, flood heat and cold, it has continued. There is rot and death in it near the ground. But at the greening tips of its upper branches and in its berrylike seed cones, there is yet the outreach of life. I respect this old juniper tree. For its age, yes. And for its steadfastness in taking whatever is thrown at it. That it has been useful in a practical way beyond itself counts for much, as well. Most of all, I admire its capacity for self-healing beyond all accidents and assaults. There is a will in it -- toward continuing to be, come what may.” - Robert Fulghum

99. “One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.” - Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards

100. “...continue on the right path. You have potential...Don't give up. Don't let yourself get down and quit studying or fighting for what you want. One day something good is bound to happen. You just have to keep at it.” - Isabela Pamelli Martins

101. “A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.” - Aberjhani

102. “The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.” - Anne Brontë

103. “Helen Sustained many falls throughout her life. But as you can see, she steps right up and keeps on going. Falling to her is as natural as sneezing to us” - Danielle Joseph

104. “When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.” - Sophocles

105. “One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.” - Criss Jami

106. “Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.” - Marilyn Monroe

107. “I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live.” - Philip Henry

108. “Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.” - Tahir Shah

109. “It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.” - Criss Jami

110. “Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” - Howard Tayler

111. “If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?” - L.A. Jones

112. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable” - Thomas Fowell Buxton

113. “As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.” - Criss Jami

114. “His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The impulse of creation forwards it; the strength of powers, seen and unseen, has its fulfillment in charge. Proof of a life to come must be given. In fire and in blood, if needful, must that proof be written. In fire and in blood do we trace the record throughout nature. In fire and in blood does it cross our own experience. Sufferer, faint not through terror of this burning evidence. Tired wayfarer, gird up thy loins, look upward, march onward. Pilgrims and brother mourners, join in friendly company. Dark through the wilderness of this world stretches the way for most of us: equal and steady be our tread; be our cross our banner. For staff we have His promis, whose 'word is tried, whose way perfect": for present hope His providence, 'who gives the shield of salvation, whose gentleness makes great'; for final home His bosom, who 'dwells in the height of Heaven'; for crowning prize a glory exceeding and eternal. Let us so run that we may obtain: let us endure hardness as good soldiers; let us finish our course, and keep the faith, reliant in the issue to come off more than conquerors: 'Art though not from everlasting mine Holy One? WE SHALL NOT DIE!” - Charlotte Brontë

115. “If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.” - Criss Jami

116. “be who you set out to be...” - Gino Norris

117. “When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.” - Criss Jami

118. “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

119. “Being alive is sign of strength!” - Hiro Mashima

120. “allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...]There is no royal road to perfection.” - Frederick Douglass

121. “...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I've learned that sometimes you just have to keep on going when you want to do nothing but drop. And that just doing the everyday things, like keeping a shop running or getting up every morning, will keep the work going until things can straighten out again. And doing those things right every day soon becomes more important than the more pressing issues of the time.” - Ann Rinaldi

122. “Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.” - Amy Denise

123. “Fall ten times, stand up eleven.” - Shannon Alder

124. “In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.” - Jonah Lehrer

125. “Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.” - Lance Armstrong

126. “I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again” - John Dryden

127. “Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.” - Criss Jami

128. “Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.” - Criss Jami

129. “Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.” - Mark Twain

130. “You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.” - Tom Hanks

131. “The sated day is never firstThe best day is a day of thirstYes, there is goal and meaning in our path -but it is the way that is the labour's worth.” - Karin Boye

132. “He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.” - Megan Whalen Turner

133. “Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.” - Ken Norton

134. “The steeper the climb, the more incentive to reach the top.Even in the midst of the darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.A name portrays the nature of its wearer. The meaning of a name, however, portrays the trueness of its wearer in depths that very few ever come to comprehend.May God bless you and keep you and give you peace in all that you do, and may we rest assured of this: that though we travel far apart and in many different directions and for long periods of time, we will meet again, if not in this lifetime, then in eternity, and there we will never have to say ‘good-bye’ again.Courage is not found in lacking fear, courage is found in not allowing your fear to rule you.Courage is really just facing fear.Do not put too much stock in the stars my boy, they are fickle and distant and do not affect the lives of men by very great a margin.” - Jenelle Leanne Schmidt

135. “When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.” - Criss Jami

136. “Perseverance and gratefulness makes ​hope closer to the blessing.” - Toba Beta

137. “I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.” - Mary Beth Chapman

138. “Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…” - Jocelyn Murray

139. “To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.” - Preston Morgan

140. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

141. “Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair.  But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the tiniest rays of lighted hope.  I am reminded that the sun also rises and that morning's glory shall restore beauty to my world.  The realization of this dream is only a matter of waiting out the dreary night.  So, I shall persevere.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

142. “In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.” - Benjamin N. Cardozo

143. “...Kita harus bertindak sesuai dengan nalar kita, dan selanjutnya biarkan Tuhan yang menentukan nilai akhirnya, Kalau kau yakin pada saat ini ingin menjadi pelayan Sang Pencipta kita dengan cara tertentu, maka keyakinan itulah satu-satunya pembimbing yang kau miliki menuju masa depan. Jangan takut untuk meyakini hal ini.” - Irving Stone

144. “I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.” - Saint Patrick

145. “I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.” - Mary Pope Osborne

146. “You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan.” - Shannon L. Alder

147. “The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up.” - Habeeb Akande

148. “Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.” - Steve Goodier

149. “Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.” - Anthon St. Maarten

150. “He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.” - St. Francis de Sales