45 Inspiring Perseverance Quotes

In life's journey, we often encounter challenges and obstacles that test our resolve and determination. Whether we're striving towards personal goals, facing professional setbacks, or navigating the complexities of everyday life, the power of perseverance is what propels us forward. In this post, we've thoughtfully gathered 45 inspiring quotes about perseverance to fuel your motivation and reignite your spirit. These quotes serve as a reminder that persistence isn't just about pressing on; it's about believing in oneself, learning from failure, and embracing every setback as a setup for a comeback. Join us as we explore these powerful words of wisdom that celebrate the indomitable strength of the human spirit.

1. “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

2. “In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with us play some part in our progress. They are oftentimes to rouse our stubborn sins to the surface, where we can deal with them and overcome them. Bundled together in families, a giant seven or nine or fifteen legged pack, we seem to make very poor progress indeed and fall to the ground in bickering heaps with some regularity. But God has put us together - has appointed each person in your bundle specifically for you, and you for them. And so, 'little children, let us love one another' with might and main, and keep hopping together toward the finish line.” - Frederica Mathewes-Green

3. “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” - Winston S. Churchill

4. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” - Margaret Thatcher

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

8. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” - Ovid

9. “It always seems impossible until it's done.” - Nelson Mandela

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

11. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

13. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” - A.A. Milne

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

15. “We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!” - Charles Dickens

16. “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

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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” - George Washington Carver

21. “So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.” - Langston Hughes

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

23. “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

24. “Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.” - Hanif Kureishi

25. “What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked.Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.” - Brandon Mull

26. “No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!” - John Calvin

27. “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

28. “You got up off the bathroom floor. That’s a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all—aside from winning the lottery—all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.” - Sarah Spann

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

30. “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

31. “I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.” - Jeanette Winterson

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

33. “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

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

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

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

37. “Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.” - Dean Koontz

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

39. “Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.” - Leo Tolstoy

40. “I study the chessboard and concede defeat."You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.” - Haruki Murakami

41. “I'm just a regular guy who up until a few years ago totally underestimated what I felt I was capable of. Since then my experiences have taught me that we are all capable of the extraordinary in our lives.” - Ray Zahab

42. “It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.” - Orrin Woodward

43. “Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.” - Orrin Woodward

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

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