Perseverance Quotes

Let these motivational quotes on perseverance inspire you to achieve your goals.

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that perseverance means a strong will and obstinacy means a strong won't."
D.W. Jerrold

"Never despair, keep pushing on!"
Sir Thomas Lipton

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."
Booker T Washington

"Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: 'Don't grumble. Plug on!'"
Sir Thomas Treves

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

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
Vince Lombardi

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities:
It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
Thomas Carlyle

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
Helen Keller

"Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."
Napolean Bonaparte

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth."
Julie Andrews

"A jug fills drop by drop."
Buddha

"Never, never, never, never give up."
Sir Winston Churchill

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."
Abraham Lincoln

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."
Napoleon Hill

"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."
Edmund Burke

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
Walter Elliott

"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up."
Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."
Joseph Addison

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

"Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."
William Hazlitt

"How long should you try? Until."
Jim Rohn

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

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."
Gillian Anderson

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

"Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know of several thousand things that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
Dale Carnegie

"I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up."
Orel Herhiser

"Life is not easy for any of us. We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Marie Curie

"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
Paul Coffey

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."
H. Ross Perot

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
Walter Elliott