98 Quotes On Perseverance

In a world filled with challenges and setbacks, perseverance becomes the enduring flame that guides us through the darkest tunnels to the light of accomplishment. It's the relentless hope and unwavering determination that propels individuals to push beyond their limits, to rise after every fall, and to strive for success despite the odds. As we navigate the complexities of life, there is much to learn from those who have walked this path before us. We've gathered some of the most inspiring quotes on perseverance to ignite your inner strength and encourage you to keep moving forward, no matter the obstacles that stand in your way. Whether you're facing personal trials, professional hurdles, or seeking motivation to chase your dreams, these quotes serve as a testament to the power of resilience and the human spirit.

1. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” - Confucius

2. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” - John Quincy Adams

3. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” - Vince Lombardi

4. “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

5. “I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” - Madeleine Albright

6. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

7. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” - Margaret Thatcher

8. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

11. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” - Martin Luther

12. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

13. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.” - H. Jackson Brown

14. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” - Confucius

15. “That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.” - Bill Watterson

16. “There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” - Lemony Snicket

17. “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

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. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” - Gena Showalter

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

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

23. “The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.” - I.F. Stone

24. “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

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

26. “What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.” - Cormac McCarthy

27. “Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.” - Barack Obama

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

29. “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

30. “I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.” - Audrey Hepburn

31. “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

32. “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

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

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

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

36. “Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.” - Traci L. Slatton

37. “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

38. “This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly looking elderly man with whom Fortey chatted genially and familiarly as we proceeded upwards at about the rate that sediments are laid down.When the man departed, Fortey said to me: "That was a very nice chap named Norman who's spent forty-two years studying one species of plant, St. John's wort. He retired in 1989, but he still comes in every week.""How do you spend forty-two years on one species of plant?" I asked."It's remarkable, isn't it?" Fortey agreed. He thought for a moment. "He's very thorough apparently." The lift door opened to reveal a bricked over opening. Fortey looked confounded. "That's very strange," he said. "That used to be Botany back there." He punched a button for another floor, and we found our way at length to Botany by means of back staircases and discreet trespass through yet more departments where investigators toiled lovingly over once-living objects.” - Bill Bryson

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

40. “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

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

42. “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

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

44. “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

45. “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

46. “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

47. “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

48. “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

49. “He who can have patience can have what he will.” - Benjamin Franklin

50. “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

51. “I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.” - Donald Miller

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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” - Criss Jami

60. “Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.” - Robin Sharma

61. “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

62. “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

63. “We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference.” - Gary Revel

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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?” - Anton Chekhov

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

69. “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

70. “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

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

72. “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

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

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

75. “We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination” - Paulo Coelho

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

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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement to get back on the wall. It’s a crazy rollercoaster and I owe my family and partners a great deal for encouraging me through it all.” - Tommy Caldwell

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

83. “The Lack of perseverance and effort isn't called Destiny !” - Shahryar Barani

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

85. “That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.” - Bob Goff

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

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

88. “Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.” - Andre Dubus

89. “Stick in and do my best.” - Rhona Cameron

90. “To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski” - Neal Ascherson

91. “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

92. “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

93. “It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.” - C.J. Redwine

94. “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

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

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

97. “We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.” - Jessica Lave

98. “The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.” - Les Coleman