Top 200 Perseverance Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

102. “Never give up, no matter what.”

— Louis Zamperini

103. “When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”

— Joyce Meyer

104. “If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it If all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it; If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it; If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern for tenacity; If neither cold or poverty, famish or gout, sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want; If dogged and grim you be size and beget it, with the help of GOD you will get it.”

— Berton Braley

105. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

— Biz Stone

106. “Champions keep going when they don’t have anything left in their tank!”

— Eric Thomas

107. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

— Dale Carnegie

108. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”

— William Edward Hickson

109. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

110. “There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

111. “Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

112. “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.”

— Joel Osteen

113. “There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

114. “If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’”

— Rudyard Kipling

115. “You will win if you don’t quit.”

— Les Brown

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

— Steve Jobs

117. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It’s yours.”

— Ayn Rand

118. “Perseverance is another word for faith!”

— Earl Nightingale

119. “You carry on no matter what the obstacles are. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.”

— Vince Lombardi

120. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.”

— Maya Angelou

121. “Mental toughness and resilience fade if they aren’t used consistently. I say it all the time: you are either getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.”

— David Goggins

122. “The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind. It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.”

— David Goggins

123. “Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.”

— Oswald Chambers

124. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

125. “Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!”

— John Lewis

126. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

— Henry Ford

127. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

— Muhammad Ali

128. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

— Louis Pasteur

129. “It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life – that’s persistence.”

— Ryan Holiday

130. “Life without limbs? Or life without limits?”

— Nick Vujicic

131. “Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

132. “No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. God sees your resolve. He sees your determination. And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do.”

— Joel Osteen

133. “In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”

— Vincent van Gogh

134. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Bruce Lee

135. “Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”

— Swami Vivekananda

136. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

137. “I will persist until I succeed!”

— Og Mandino

138. “Failure cannot cope with persistence.”

— Napoleon Hill

139. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

— Vince Lombardi

140. “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

— Bob Marley

141. “Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”

— Eric Thomas

142. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

— Robert Frost

143. “When you feel like quitting think about why you started.”

— Anonymous

144. “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.”

— Chris Bradford

145. “No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.”

— Elon Musk

146. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

147. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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

— Christopher Reeve

149. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

— Bill Gates

150. “There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equal as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that is that. I am not talented, I am obsessed.”

— Conor McGregor