Quotes About Perseverance

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

— Confucius

"To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. I will drink the ocean, says the persevering soul; at my will mountains will crumble up."

— Swami Vivekananda

"You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance."

— Lou Holtz

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."

— Og Mandino

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

— Jacob A. Riis

"Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal."

— Swami Vivekananda

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

— Maya Angelou

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step, if that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."

— Og Mandino

"People who accomplished great things often combined a passion for a single mission with an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission, whatever the obstacles and however long it might take."

— Duckworth

"Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right."

— Pope Francis

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

— Jim Watkins

"Three failures in a row, did you not think I need to pack it in? I will never give up, I will just keep going."

— Elon Musk

"For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up"

— Dwight D Eisenhower

"The pursuit of goal, regardless of size, requires constant commitment and unwavering persistence, especially in the face of obstacles and setbacks."

— Angela Duckworth

"My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out."

— Zosia Mamet

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

— Helen Keller

"You never know how good you can be at something until you approach it with passion, dedication and persistence."

— Carol Dweck

"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory."

— Ted Engstrom

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

— Anonymous

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

— Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder

"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

"Perseverance is the chief to success; but perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it."

— Alexander Graham Bell

"I might not be more skilled than other Scientists & Technologists, but I have the persistence of a mule."

— Albert Einstein

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

— Thomas Edison

"The Universe will conspire to help you when you commit to following your purpose."

— Joseph Campbell

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

— Dale Carnegie

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

— Benjamin Franklin

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."

— Isak Dinesen

"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.

"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours."

— Orison Swett Marden

"Why you need perseverance?"

— Unknown

"You need more than perseverance"

— Unknown

"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

— Calvin Coolidge

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

— Margaret Thatcher

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."

— Oprah Winfrey

"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

— Marie Curie

"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

— Louis Pasteur

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

"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 winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

— Michael Jordan

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

— John Quincy Adams

"Potential goes unrealized and dreams die every day because so many give up instead of trying just one more time."

— Dale Marcouillier

"You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it."

— Margaret Thatcher

"No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."

— Ramana Maharshi

"I do not believe in genius, only persistent, courageous and labour."

— M. Reger

"When a man is in the right path, he must persevere."

— P.T. Barnum

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary'perseverance, all things are attainable."

— Thomas Fowell Buxton

"Even after getting rejected by dozens of publishers, I persisted."

— J K Rowling

"Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure."

— Donald Trump

"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

— Calvin Coolidge

"I do not think that 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

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

— Jeff Bezos

"Perseverance will take you to places that talent can't even dream of."

— Anonymous

"Passion, dedication and persistence count the most when children are cultivating their intelligence and talents."

— Carol Dweck