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

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"The best view comes after the hardest climb"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

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

Michael Jordan, Athlete

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

W. C. Fields, Comedian

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"The best way out is always through"

Robert Frost, Poet

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"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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

Saadi, Poet

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"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

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"If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

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

Lucretius, Poet

"Pain is temporary. Pride is forever"

Mat Fraser, Athlete

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

Josh Billings, Comedian

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"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer"

John Madden, Coach

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"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone"

Lucretius, Poet

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

Ovid, Poet

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

Fridtjof Nansen, Explorer

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

Virgil, Writer

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain"

Dolly Parton, Musician

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"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man"

Iain Duncan Smith, Politician

"A minute's success pays the failure of years"

Robert Browning, Poet

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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

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

Robert Frost, Poet

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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

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

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

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

Mike Tyson, Athlete

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

Tom Hanks, Actor

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

Walter Elliot, Politician

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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer"

George S. Patton, Soldier

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"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

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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all"

John Cage, Composer

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"Genius is nothing but continued attention"

Claude Adrien Helvetius, Philosopher

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"It is part of our human nature to want to be liked. It is part of our human nature to worry about what others think of us. It is an attribute of greatness and of American exceptionalism to not surrender to our nature, but to be guided by an inner calling to persevere and to prevail, no matter the personal cost"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

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

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

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"No pressure, no diamonds"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

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"A will finds a way"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

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