Perseverance Quotes

"Getting into comedy was difficult for my parents to comprehend. I think now they are really proud I stuck to it."

"It was always hard to make films in Greece, but making them with friends made it possible."

"Doesn't matter what goes on in my life; I go forward."

"As you fight corruption, it fights back."

"My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man."

"In life, you have ups and downs, but you should never give up. You should always try to get ahead."

"Playing the whole season and going through the whole playoffs in 2011 was the hardest 10-month period."

“I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.”

"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"

"For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society."

"If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that."

"Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance."

"I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights."

"It's easy to give up. It's even easier to start pointing fingers."

"I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy."

"Everybody told me I was too small to be a wrestler."

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

Christopher Reeve

"He conquers who endures."

Persius

"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."

Doug Larson

"Then while we live, in love let's so persevere, that when we live no more, we may live ever."

Anne Bradstreet

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

Marie Curie

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."

Dorothy Height

"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world."

Jane Addams

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

Muhammad Ali