Top 200 Persistence Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

152. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

— Jack Canfield

153. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

— Thomas A. Edison

154. “Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.”

— Denzel Washington

155. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

— Sam Levenson

156. “If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”

— Tom Hanks

157. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

158. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

159. “Slow progress is better than no progress.”

— Anonymous

160. “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance.”

— Jack Ma

161. “You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it is the right thing to do and success will come.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

162. “Hard work and training. There’s no secret formula.”

— Ronnie Coleman

163. “Do it now. Sometimes ‘Later’ becomes ‘Never’”

— Anonymous

164. “If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”

— Hayley Williams

165. “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”

— Stephen Richards

166. “I’ve learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we’ll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.”

— Dwayne Johnson

167. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.”

— Walt Disney

168. “It ain't over till it's over.”

— Yogi Berra

169. “There are no shortcuts to success.”

— Annika Sorenstam

170. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

— Paulo Coelho

171. “Stand up and finish what you started.”

— Bob Harper

172. “Just because you have failed, that doesn’t make you a failure. And just because you have lost, that doesn’t make you a loser.”

— Eric Thomas

173. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”

— Saadi

174. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

— Vince Lombardi

175. “Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.”

— Paulo Coelho

176. “There is no substitute for hard work. Always be humble and hungry.”

— Dwayne Johnson

177. “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

— Jacob August Riis

178. “Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.”

— Steve Prefontaine

179. “Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.”

— Denzel Washington

180. “If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”

— Les Brown

181. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

— Mary Kay Ash

182. “The only failure is not trying.”

— Robin S. Sharma

183. “Don’t stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.”

— Sachin Tendulkar

184. “I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”

— Thomas A. Edison

185. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

186. “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.”

— T. Harv Eker

187. “Screw it, let’s do it – Just get on with it and do it.”

— Richard Branson

188. “Giving up is the greatest failure.”

— Jack Ma

189. “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

— Jack London

190. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean

191. “I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”

— Sylvester Stallone

192. “Don’t cry to quit. Cry to keep going!”

— Eric Thomas

193. “NOBODY CARES. WORK HARDER.”

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194. “We didn’t come this far just to come this far.”

— Matthew Reilly

195. “If it’s hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.”

— Les Brown

196. “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.”

— Bertrand Russell

197. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

— Leo Tolstoy

198. “All things are difficult before they are easy.”

— Thomas Fuller

199. “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

200. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

— Albert Einstein