Great Perseverance Quotes:

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Perseverance, Never Surrender

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Encounters, May, Overcoming, Make People Feel Better, Perserverance

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

- Marian Wright Edelman

topic: Success, Winning, History, Persistence Inspirational, African American Inspirational

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Freedom, Inspirational Mountain Climbing

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

- James Whitcomb Riley

topic: Motivational, Perseverance, Determination, Life Determination, Motivation And Determination

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Running, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Baseball

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

- Marilyn vos Savant

source: "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Journey To Success, Inspirational Determination

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

source: "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Inspirational Cancer, Do Not Give Up

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On, Just Keep Moving, Just Keep Moving Forward

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

- Randy Pausch

source: YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Perseverance, Inspirational Hard Work, Last Lecture

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

- Josh Billings

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Strength And Determination, Strength And Perseverance

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Spiritual Strength, Strength And Determination

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

- Christopher Reeve

source: "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Hurdling Obstacles, Overwhelming Force

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

- William Feather

topic: Success, Perseverance, Hard Work, Try Again, Spanish And English

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Pushing On, Solved Problems

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? 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

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Race, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Inspirational, Life, Crush, Obstacle In Life, Determination And Persistence

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

- Randy Pausch

topic: Wall, Inspirational Life, People, Inspirational Hard Work, Cards You're Dealt

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Hero, Men, Generosity, Being A Hero, Great Perseverance

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

- Randy Pausch

topic: Happiness, Success, Peace, Inspirational Hard Work, Motivational Work

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

- Claude M. Bristol

topic: Determination, Effort, Resistance, Inspirational Determination, Obstacle In Life

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Perseverance, Courage, Failure, Just Keep Smiling, Chin Up

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

- Abigail Adams

source: Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE

topic: Perseverance, 4th Of July, May, Patience And Perseverance, Great Perseverance

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

- Og Mandino

topic: Inspirational, Winning, Long, Motivation And Determination, Perseverance Motivational

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Self Esteem, Moving, People, Move Mountains, Great Perseverance

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

- Owen Feltham

topic: Motivational, Perseverance, Business, Great Perseverance

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Spiritual, Law Books, Motivation And Determination, Motivation And Drive, Motivational Goal

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Confidence, Believe, Persistence, Opposers, Adversity And Perseverance

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Teamwork, Mean, Hard Work, Winners And Winning, Winning Isn't Everything

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

- Tommy Lasorda

source: Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Baseball Games, Inspirational Determination

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

- Winston Churchill

source: Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

topic: Life, Inspiring, Graduation, Just Give Up, Just Stay Strong

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

- Oliver Goldsmith

topic: Motivational, Success, Perseverance, Perserverance, Inspirational Perseverance

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.497, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Perseverance

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Believe, Inspirational Believe In Yourself, Life Determination

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Wisdom, Perseverance, Giving Up, Great Perseverance

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football