Perseverance Quotes

Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance, which helps one persist in making things happen.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you prepare, regularly work hard, create value, help others get what they want, and persevere... the life of your dreams is INEVITABLE.

~ Matthew Loop

Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead.. .because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes the strain. The goal beckons them onward. Passion doesn't negate weariness, it just resolves to press beyond it.

~ Priscilla Shirer

You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation, you simply need a plan.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

~ St. Patrick

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

Often, people give up without knowing success was just around the corner; if they had only preserved a little longer, if they had only tried one more time, they could have succeed.

~ Ashley Ormon

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

~ Jeff Goins

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

~ Jessica Lave

Leaders respond & change, the rest quit and blame.

~ Orrin Woodward

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

~ Plato

She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue the only place on him unclaimed by Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line. The flies dance a dance of avoidance - but for all that, they were eager to dance.

~ Steven Erikson

The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.

~ Les Coleman

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

~ Bob Goff

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

~ Dean Koontz

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

~ Lance Armstrong

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…

~ Jocelyn Murray

...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I've learned that sometimes you just have to keep on going when you want to do nothing but drop. And that just doing the everyday things, like keeping a shop running or getting up every morning, will keep the work going until things can straighten out again. And doing those things right every day soon becomes more important than the more pressing issues of the time.

~ Ann Rinaldi

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

~ Neal Ascherson

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.

~ Tom Giaquinto

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

~ Mark Twain

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

~ Amy Denise

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

~ Samuel Johnson

I study the chessboard and concede defeat.You can gain yourself in five moves says the Colonel. Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.

~ Haruki Murakami

Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

~ Orrin Woodward

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

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

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

~ Preston Morgan

Perseverance and gratefulness makes ​hope closer to the blessing.

~ Toba Beta

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.

~ Orrin Woodward

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

~ Mario Fernández

Stick in and do my best.

~ Rhona Cameron

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

~ Cyrus Mccormick

The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

~ Denise Di Novi

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

~ Joseph Addison

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

~ Pierce Brosnan

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

~ Vince Lombardi

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

~ Travis Bradberry

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

~ Benjamin Disraeli