Perseverance Quotes

"The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat."

Woodrow Wilson

"Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."

Langston Hughes

“Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.”

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

John Quincy Adams

"Slow and steady wins the race."

Aesop

"Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love."

"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

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

William Feather

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

James A. Michener

"Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead."

Mary Pierce

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Thomas Edison

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"Every noble work is at first impossible."

Thomas Carlyle

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."

Victor Hugo

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

"Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck."

"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."

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

Mary Anne Radmacher

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up."

"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."

Lord Chesterfield

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."