Top 200 Persistence Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward, toward finding the answer.”

— Denis Waitley

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102. “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

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Action Quotes, Hustle Quotes

103. “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

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Monday Quotes

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

— Napoleon Hill

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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

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Live Life Quotes

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

— Mark Cuban

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Learning Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

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

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

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.

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Winning Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

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

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Patience Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

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

— Alex Morgan

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Effort Quotes

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

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

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

— Alexander the Great

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Victory Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

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

— Spencer W. Kimball

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Excellence Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Commitment Quotes

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

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Obstacles Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

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

— Ben Carson

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Determination Quotes

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

— Dolly Parton

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

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

— Mark Cuban

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Effort Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

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

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Work Quotes

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

— Nora Roberts

Also featured in: Effort Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Victory Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

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

— Regina Brett

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women

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

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Quotes About Life

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

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

123. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

— Napoleon

Also featured in: Effort Quotes, Winning Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

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

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Goal Quotes, Action Quotes

125. “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

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Growth Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Encouraging Quotes

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

— Marie Forleo

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

127. “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

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

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

— Chris Gardner

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

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

— Christopher Nolan

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Change Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

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

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Empowering Quotes

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Monday Quotes

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

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

133. “No excuses. Just do the work.”

— Shalane Flanagan

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Winning Quotes

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

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

136. “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

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Hard Work Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

137. “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

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Interesting Quotes

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

— Howard A. Tullman

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Quotes for Success, Excellence Quotes

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

— Louis L'Amour

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Quotes About Writing, Quotes About Trying

140. “All I know is grind.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Sports Quotes

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

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Quotes About Life

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

— Bo Jackson

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

143. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Growth Quotes, Challenges Quotes

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

— Jared Leto

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Passion Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Challenges Quotes

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

— Edwin Louis Cole

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Friday Inspirational Quotes, Commitment Quotes

146. “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

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

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

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Challenges Quotes

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

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Positive Motivation Quotes, Personality Quotes

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

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

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

— Michelle Obama

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