A steadfast, continuous effort to achieve goals despite difficulties, opposition, or failures is a key characteristic of perseverance. It is the inner willpower and grit that push individuals to keep moving forward, finish what they start, and transform obstacles into opportunities for growth. And a combination of grit and elbow grease is the absolute best formula for crushing your goals. May these inspirational quotes about perseverance offer you insights to help shift your mindset from overwhelmed to empowered.
1. “The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.” – Sun Yat-sen
2. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
3. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid
4. “Remember that what has once been done may be done again.” – Alexandre Dumas
5. “I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” – Madeleine Albright
6. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” – Thomas A. Edison
7. “It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.” – Patrick Ness
8. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” – Woodrow Wilson
9. “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” – Flavia Weedn
10. “It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.” – Roy T. Bennett
11. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
12. “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
13. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” – Margaret Thatcher
14. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George M. Moore Jr.
15. “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
16. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
17. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
18. “It always seems impossible until it's done.” – Nelson Mandela
19. “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” – Winston Churchill
20. “If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Joseph Addison
21. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
22. “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
23. “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
24. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon
25. “Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe
26. “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. Never yield to force. Never yield to the overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Winston Churchill
27. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther
28. “You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.” – Tom Hiddleston
29. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells
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30. “Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
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31. “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.” – Stephen Hawking
32. “The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.” – Lady Aberdeen
33. “A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.” – Brandon Sanderson
34. “Keep passing the open windows.” – John Irving
35. “I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.” – Audrey Hepburn
36. “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” – Criss Jami
37. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
38. “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.” – Robert Strauss
39. “By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.” – Charles Spurgeon
40. “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Anonymous
41. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” – John Quincy Adams
42. “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. “It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.” – Anthony Robbins
44. “The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.” – Anne Brontë
45. “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” – Nelson Mandela
46. “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
47. “Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” – Julie Andrews Edwards
48. “You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.” – Geraldine Brooks
49. “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” – Roger Von Oech
50. “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
51. “What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.” – Cornelius Elmore Addison
52. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
53. “A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.” – Charles de Gaulle
54. “Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.” – St. Catherine of Siena
55. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
56. “It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.” – Jenny Han
57. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.” – H. Jackson Brown
58. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
59. “In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.” – George S. Patton Jr.
60. “You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.” – Michael Connelly
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61. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
62. “You can’t stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
63. “Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – F.W. Dupee
64. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” – Thomas Fowell Buxton
65. “Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.” – Frank Delaney
66. “The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” – Kalpana Chawla
67. “Keep trying until you have no more chances left.” – Aimee Carter
68. “Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.” – Gillian Anderson
69. “A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.” – Gary Hamel
70. “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 Wadsworth Longfellow
71. “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.” – Henry Ward Beecher
72. “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli
73. “Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.” – Michael Chiesa
74. “Going on one more round, when you don’t think you can, that’s what makes all the difference in your life.” – Sylvester Stallone
75. “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” – Alexander Graham Bell
76. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather
77. “The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.” – John C. Maxwell
78. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
79. “Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
80. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
81. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo
82. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
83. “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
84. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back.” – Steve Jobs
85. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
86. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
87. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
88. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Chinese Proverb
89. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
90. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
91. “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
92. “A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” – B.F. Skinner
93. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
94. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
95. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
96. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.” – Calvin Coolidge
97. “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.
98. “The brick walls are there for a reason. They are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” – Randy Pausch
99. “Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut instinct.” – Paula Abdul
100. “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.” – Orison Swett Marden
101. “We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” – Marie Curie
102. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.” – Helen Keller
103. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
104. “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
105. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca
106. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
107. “I have failed again and again throughout my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
108. “A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – James Watkins
109. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
110. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African Proverb
111. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Bob Marley
112. “Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.” – Muhammad Ali
113. “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.” – Og Mandino
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2. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
3. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid
4. “Remember that what has once been done may be done again.” – Alexandre Dumas
5. “I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” – Madeleine Albright
6. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” – Thomas A. Edison
7. “It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.” – Patrick Ness
8. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” – Woodrow Wilson
9. “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” – Flavia Weedn
11. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
12. “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
13. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” – Margaret Thatcher
14. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George M. Moore Jr.
16. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
17. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
18. “It always seems impossible until it's done.” – Nelson Mandela
19. “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” – Winston Churchill
21. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
22. “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
23. “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
24. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon
26. “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. Never yield to force. Never yield to the overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Winston Churchill
27. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther
28. “You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.” – Tom Hiddleston
29. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells
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31. “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.” – Stephen Hawking
32. “The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.” – Lady Aberdeen
33. “A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.” – Brandon Sanderson
34. “Keep passing the open windows.” – John Irving
35. “I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.” – Audrey Hepburn
36. “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” – Criss Jami
37. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
38. “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.” – Robert Strauss
39. “By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.” – Charles Spurgeon
40. “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Anonymous
41. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” – John Quincy Adams
42. “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. “It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.” – Anthony Robbins
44. “The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.” – Anne Brontë
45. “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” – Nelson Mandela
46. “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
47. “Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” – Julie Andrews Edwards
48. “You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.” – Geraldine Brooks
49. “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” – Roger Von Oech
50. “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
51. “What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.” – Cornelius Elmore Addison
52. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
53. “A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.” – Charles de Gaulle
54. “Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.” – St. Catherine of Siena
55. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
56. “It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.” – Jenny Han
57. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.” – H. Jackson Brown
58. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
59. “In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.” – George S. Patton Jr.
60. “You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.” – Michael Connelly
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61. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
62. “You can’t stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
63. “Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – F.W. Dupee
64. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” – Thomas Fowell Buxton
65. “Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.” – Frank Delaney
66. “The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” – Kalpana Chawla
67. “Keep trying until you have no more chances left.” – Aimee Carter
68. “Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.” – Gillian Anderson
69. “A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.” – Gary Hamel
70. “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 Wadsworth Longfellow
71. “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.” – Henry Ward Beecher
72. “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli
73. “Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.” – Michael Chiesa
74. “Going on one more round, when you don’t think you can, that’s what makes all the difference in your life.” – Sylvester Stallone
75. “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” – Alexander Graham Bell
76. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather
77. “The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.” – John C. Maxwell
78. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
79. “Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
80. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
81. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo
82. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
83. “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
84. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back.” – Steve Jobs
85. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
86. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
87. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
88. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Chinese Proverb
89. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
90. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
91. “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
92. “A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” – B.F. Skinner
93. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
94. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
95. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
96. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.” – Calvin Coolidge
97. “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.
98. “The brick walls are there for a reason. They are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” – Randy Pausch
99. “Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut instinct.” – Paula Abdul
100. “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.” – Orison Swett Marden
101. “We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” – Marie Curie
102. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.” – Helen Keller
103. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
104. “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
105. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca
106. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
107. “I have failed again and again throughout my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
108. “A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – James Watkins
109. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
110. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African Proverb
111. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Bob Marley
112. “Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.” – Muhammad Ali
113. “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.” – Og Mandino
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