Perseverance is not giving up. It is persistence and tenacity, the effort required to do something and keep doing it till the end, even if it’s hard. Perseverance originally comes from the Latin perseverantia and means to abide by something strictly. This makes sense, because if you’re doing something in spite of all the difficulty, you’re being strict on yourself. Sailing around the world and climbing Mt. Everest are acts requiring perseverance. Even things like learning a new language require perseverance and daily practice.
Some of the best perseverance quotes are listed below.
- “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George Augustus Moore
- “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon
- “All great achievements require time.” – Maya Angelou
- “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” – Christopher Morley
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
- “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” – Lucretius
- “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Endurance is patience concentrated.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
- “Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.” – John Wooden
- “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.” – Kobe Bryant
- “Hardships make or break people.” – Margaret Mitchell
- “How long should you try? Until.” – Jim Rohn
- “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.” – Dave Ramsey
- “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “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.
- “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “If you rest, you rust.” – Helen Hayes
- “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it” – Thomas Jefferson
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “It’s always too early to quit.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
- “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “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
- “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Never, never, never give in!” – Winston Churchill
- “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” – Andrew Carnegie
- “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.” – George Washington
- “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo
- “Persistence is self-discipline in action.” – Brian Tracy
- “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” – A. A. Milne
- “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” – Seneca
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather
- “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
- “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
- “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Wanting to win isn’t enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.” – John C. Maxwell
- “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
- “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.” – Jacob August Riis
- “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Elvis Presley
- “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable” – Thomas Fowell Buxton
- “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
