#Perseverance Quotes

“Much rain wears the marble.”

“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.”

“Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”

“Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!”

“Fight to the last gasp.”

“Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.”

“We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.”

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”

“Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

“Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow”

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.”

“Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.”

“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore”

“Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere”

“Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”

“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”

“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

“To persevereIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.”

“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”

“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step”

“For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.”

“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”

“But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleepIn the affliction of these terrible dreamsThat shake us nightly.”

“Difficulties exist to be surmounted.”

“On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.”

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”

“What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!”

“Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.”

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

“Keep calm and carry on.”

“O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.”

“Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.”

“Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.”

“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.”

“All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.”

“Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.”

“No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.”

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

“Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.”

“Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.”

“Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.”