Perseverance Quotes

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

~ Charles Jones

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

~ J.k. Rowling

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

~ George R.r. Martin

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

~ Cormac Mccarthy

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

~ Aimee Carter

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

~ Winston S. Churchill

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

~ Samuel Johnson

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.

~ Tracy Mcmillan

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...

~ Tennessee Williams

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

~ Woodrow Wilson

What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him? Seth asked.Dale paused. I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.

~ Brandon Mull

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.

~ Jayleigh Cape

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.

~ Rachel Hawthorne

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

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

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

~ Tamora Pierce

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.

~ Mary Renault

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

~ George Saunders

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

~ Henry James

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

~ Alexandre Dumas

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

~ Anne Brontë

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

~ Billie Jean King

Progress always involves risk, you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

~ F.w. Dupee

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

~ Elon Musk

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

~ Frank Delaney

Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.

~ Louis Sachar

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

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

It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

~ Robert Lipsyte

We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference.

~ Gary Revel

Only fool keeps mocking perseverance.

~ Toba Beta

Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.

~ Henry V. O'neil

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

~ Christina Rossetti

You know, most men would get discouraged by now. Fortunately for you, I am not most men!

~ Pepe Le Pew