Motivation & Success: Perseverance Quotes

Discover a focused collection of perseverance quotes highlighting steady effort, grit, and the patience required to overcome setbacks. These words encourage staying the course, building habits, and trusting small steps that compound into meaningful progress. Use these insights to renew motivation, reframe obstacles as lessons, and celebrate resilience in daily work and long-term goals. Find encouragement for persistence through plateaus and clarity during demanding seasons.

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"I can't go on. I'll go on"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"The best view comes after the hardest climb"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

Mat Fraser

"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

W. C. Fields

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"The best way out is always through"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him"

Elmer G. Letterman, General

"What is to give light must endure burning"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward"

Fridtjof Nansen, Explorer

Fridtjof Nansen

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy"

Ralph Ransom, Artist

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other"

Walter Elliot, Politician

Walter Elliot

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

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

Nelson Mandela

"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance"

Virgil, Writer

"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man"

Iain Duncan Smith, Politician

"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"The fall of dropping water wears away the stone"

Lucretius, Poet

Lucretius

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"

William Edward Hickson, Writer

William Edward Hickson

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

Lionel Messi

"What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery"

Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut

Ellen Ochoa

"Genius is nothing but continued attention"

Claude Adrien Helvetius, Philosopher

"Men's best successes come after their disappointments"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"No pressure, no diamonds"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"First I shake the whole apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf"

Martin Luther, Professor

Martin Luther

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer"

George S. Patton, Soldier

George S. Patton

"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"A will finds a way"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

Orison Swett Marden

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

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

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