Perseverance - Quotes

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Spurgeon

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

I don’t think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. - John D. Rockefeller

If perseverance is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. - Sydney Harris

If you really want to make a difference, whether it's in helping other people, or whether it's in fighting for your country, or whether it's in the political arena, or journalism, or physics, you've got to persevere. You've got to understand that there are going to be some enormous bumps in the road. They can be personal. You can get hurt badly. You can lose a friend, or a child, or a wife, or a husband. But you've got to persevere, you've got to be guided by certain principles and stay the course. If you quit, if you run away when the going gets tough, you won't really understand what a full life is all about. - George H. W. Bush

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. - Mao Zedong

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance. - J. Jackson Frown

It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance. - James Russell Miller 

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. - Lynn Davies

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. - Barack Obama

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

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

Perseverance and persistence is the key to everything. If there is something you really want to do, and you work hard enough, you can definitely get there. - Kaila Yu

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 Wadworth Longfellow

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

Perseverance is having the fortitude to overcome life’s challenges, but it’s also having the faith to never let go of hope and the courage to never stop believing in love. - Robert Clancy

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

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

Perseverance is stubbornness with a purpose. - Josh Shipp

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. - Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is the will to hold on a little longer when most would have given up a long time ago. - Unknown

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. - Victor Hugo

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. - Matt Biond

Pig-headed stubbornness is the perseverance of somebody we don't like. - Robert Elliott Gonzales

Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more. - William Scott Downey

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. - Ted W. Engstrom

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

When perseverance is a lifelong deed, the swim up stream will be an easy feat. - Unknown