45 Inspiring Quotes On Persistence

In a world where challenges often test our resolve, persistence emerges as the beacon guiding us toward our goals. It's the unwavering dedication to keep pushing forward, even when the path is steep or fraught with obstacles. Whether you're striving for personal growth, professional success, or simply navigating the ups and downs of life, a dose of inspiration can sometimes make all the difference. In this collection, we've gathered 45 powerful quotes that encapsulate the spirit of perseverance. Let these words encourage you to stay the course, ignite your determination, and remind you that persistence is the key to unlocking your potential.

1. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou

2. “Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.” - William S. Burroughs

3. “The best way out is always through.” - Robert Frost

4. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston S. Churchill

5. “It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” - Louis Sachar

6. “Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.” - Jenny Diski

7. “I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort.” - Harold Brodkey

8. “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.” - Henry Ward Beecher

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

10. “A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.” - Charles Baudelaire

11. “Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!” - John Wesley

12. “As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.” - Thomas Pynchon

13. “In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ” - Robert Fanney

14. “I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.” - Beth Revis

15. “They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence ” - John Di Lemme

16. “The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.” - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

17. “One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.” - Joyce Meyer

18. “Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.” - Ralph Alfred Habas

19. “Persistence and determination are always rewarded.” - Christine Rice

20. “It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.” - Rodolfo Costa

21. “Talent is nothing without persistence.” - Dean Crawford

22. “This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.” - T.F. Hodge

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

24. “The devil's happy when the critics run you off.” - Criss Jami

25. “The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.” - Shannon Hale

26. “Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

27. “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

28. “Waiting is a form of passive persistence.” - Ogwo David Emenike

29. “Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work.Every time my alarm goes off at 5 AM and I don’t want to get up, or I would rather sit down after work and play a videogame, I think about those guys. Take care of your family. They need you and love you. Make time for them. Then stop screwing around and finish your damn book.” - Bernard Schaffer

30. “Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.” - Ogwo David Emenike

31. “Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.” - Steve Chandler

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

33. “To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and leadyour life.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

34. “I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly").” - James Houston Turner

35. “Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.” - Quentin L. Cook

36. “Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

37. “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” - Habeeb Akande

38. “As you think and act, so your world becomes.” - T. Scott McLeod

39. “If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith in the order of things, even if I were to become convinced, on the contrary, that everything is a disorderly, damned, and perhaps devilish chaos, if I were struck even by all the horrors of human disillusionment-still I would want to live, and as long as I have bent to this cup, I will not tear myself from it until I've drunk it all!” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

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

41. “While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.” - Tom Shippey

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

43. “She knew she could answer it. She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She’d seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock. She would find the answer.” - Veronica Rossi

44. “A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet by Logan Mountstuart. Perhaps I will surprise them all, yet.” - William Boyd

45. “You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.” - Justin Cotillard