Top 200 Perseverance Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

— Vincent van Gogh

52. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”

— Victor Hugo

53. “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

54. “Endurance is patience concentrated.”

— Thomas Carlyle

55. “How long should you try? Until.”

— Jim Rohn

56. “If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.”

— Dave Ramsey

57. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”

— Elbert Hubbard

58. “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

59. “You will never ever be successful, until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.”

— Eric Thomas

60. “To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don’t give up, don’t give in. There’s always an answer to everything.”

— Louis Zamperini

61. “I’ve gotta breathe it, I’ve gotta eat it, I’ve gotta sleep it and until you get there you will never be successful in life. But once you get there I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want.”

— Eric Thomas

62. “Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”

— Ralph Marston

63. “You can keep going and your legs might hurt for a week, or you can quit and your mind will hurt for a lifetime.”

— Mark Allen

64. “If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working on it.”

— Michael Jordan

65. “There is no gain without struggle.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

66. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

— Abraham Lincoln

67. “Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”

— David Goggins

68. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

69. “It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.”

— David Goggins

70. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

— Kobe Bryant

71. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

72. “Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

73. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

— Winston Churchill

74. “That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

75. “If I can’t – then I must. If I must – then I will.”

— Tony Robbins

76. “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.”

— Jim Valvano

77. “We shall never surrender.”

— Winston Churchill

78. “Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”

— Brian Tracy

79. “Failure is an option. It’s what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can’t sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.”

— David Goggins

80. “Every setback is a setup for a comeback!”

— Joel Osteen

81. “Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”

— Tony Robbins

82. “Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”

— Nicholas Sparks

83. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

84. “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”

— Zig Ziglar

85. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

— Elon Musk

86. “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

— Walt Disney

87. “Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.”

— Nastia Liukin

88. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

89. “Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!”

— Eric Thomas

90. “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.”

— Nick Vujicic

91. “Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.”

— Bear Grylls

92. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.”

— Jillian Michaels

93. “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

94. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.”

— Thomas A. Edison

95. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”

— Thomas A. Edison

96. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

97. “You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”

— Lionel Messi

98. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

99. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”

— Maya Angelou

100. “Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.”

— W. Clement Stone