397 Inspiring Quotes About Perseverance to Help You Hang in There

The best way out is always through.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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.

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

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

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

Perseverance and perspective until victory.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

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

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

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

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

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

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

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

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.

If I persist long enough I will win.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

There is no armor like perseverance.

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

No conqueror believes in chance.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

There is only one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.

If four things are followed -- having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance -- then anything can be achieved.

He conquers who endures.

The seeds of greatness are planted in the daily grind.

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

You will receive most when you will expect least.

I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier.

A crowbar is a universal pass key.

Everyone wants some magic pill -- some life hack -- that eliminates the need to do the work. But that does not exist.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Beginners are many; finishers are few.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Whatever gets you through the night.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

If you rest, you rust.

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Have passion for what you do; believe in yourself and your product and your customer; persevere; delegate; listen. Have fun. Today, I add: "Do good."

Stay the course. When thwarted try again; harder; smarter. Persevere relentlessly.

Just past hell lies paradise. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of that.

Even when lightning flashes inside them... we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

What you resist, persists.

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed.

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.

In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.

A successful person is just a novice who started and kept on going.

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.

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

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

You have the power to overcome. You have the power to persist. You have the power to be hurting and scared and broken while still courageously pressing onward.

Our motto must be, "Non-Resistant Persistence."

Persistence wears down resistance.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

When there's a setback, someone with a fixed mindset will start thinking, 'Maybe I don't have what it takes?' They may get defensive and give up. A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacle, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.

Until then we must carry on and have courage.

Keep trying no matter how many times you have failed.
If you fail, try, try again.
Never stop trying.
You success will come unexpected.

Your only barriers are what you let them be.

Don't ever let rejections or failures put you down and keep you from trying. Believe in yourself, have an unwavering desire to excel, put in your best your efforts, persevere and you will blaze your trail.

Persevere. There is one dandelion that grows from the crack in the cement. Let that one dandelion be YOU.

When you give up, you are giving others control of your destiny.
When you choose not to give up, you take control of your destiny.

Tripping and falling are part of what makes living real
Rising and reaching are what make you capture the ideal
Don't sit there mourning
Get up rejoicing
It is a new day...
with a will, there is a way!

The only way through it...is through it.

When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal.

He was not the strongest, the quickest, or the most talented, not by any measure. He knew this and knew he could not control this. However, he could control his effort, the work he put in, and there he would not be beaten.

It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is -- to persevere.

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.