Top 200 Persistence Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”

— Colin Powell

102. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.”

— Michelle Obama

103. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

104. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

— Napoleon Hill

105. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

106. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

107. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”

— Mark Cuban

108. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.”

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

109. “Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

110. “Never give up on what you really want to do”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

111. “Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it’s never really over until the whistle blows.”

— Alex Morgan

112. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

— Alexander the Great

113. “Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

114. “Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is these qualities that distinguish the strong soul from the weak.”

— Thomas Carlyle

115. “Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”

— Ben Carson

116. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

— Dolly Parton

117. “There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.”

— Mark Cuban

118. “Success is never on discount. Greatness is never on sale. Greatness is never half off. It’s all or nothing. It’s all day, every day. Greatness is never on discount.”

— Eric Thomas

119. “There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.”

— Nora Roberts

120. “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.”

— Regina Brett

121. “Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.”

— Michael Jordan

122. “Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.”

— John Wooden

123. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

— Napoleon

124. “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

— Mary Pickford

125. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.”

— Nelson Mandela

126. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

127. “If you want something, go get it. Period.”

— Chris Gardner

128. “Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.”

— Marie Forleo

129. “Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.”

— Christopher Nolan

130. “The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. ”

— Brian Tracy

131. “There is no excuse for not trying.”

— Barack Obama

132. “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

133. “No excuses. Just do the work.”

— Shalane Flanagan

134. “It's never crowded along the extra mile.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

135. “FOCUS – Follow One Course Until Successful.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

136. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

137. “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong

138. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”

— Louis L'Amour

139. “You get what you work for, not what you wish for.”

— Howard A. Tullman

140. “All I know is grind.”

— Ray Lewis

141. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”

— Bo Jackson

142. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

— Winston Churchill

143. “Become one of the rare people who don’t know how to quit.”

— Robin S. Sharma

144. “Try and fail, but never fail to try!”

— Jared Leto

145. “Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”

— Steve Jobs

146. “Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.”

— Edwin Louis Cole

147. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

148. “Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.”

— John Wooden

149. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

— Nora Roberts

150. “There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.”

— Michelle Obama