Perseverance Quotes

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

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

It's not where you start but where you finish that counts.

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going,always going, no matter what happens, there is nocertainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

There is no abiding success without commitment.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

Our work is never over.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.

The dream is free...but the journey will cost you something.

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

If I’m committed, there is always a way.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.

One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

The lover never despairs.For a committed heart everything is possible.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight