Perseverance Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old perseverance quotes, perseverance sayings, and perseverance proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Confucius
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison
You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on. Lois McMaster Bujold
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. Theodore Roosevelt
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. Napoleon Hill
At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found. Hudson Newsletter
It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. Robert Lipsyte
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. Paula Abdul
Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realize the great life. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. Henry Ward Beecher
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe
It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela
A winner is just a loser who tried one more time. George M. Moore Jr.
Be persevering at the bottom, humble at the top. Maxime Lagacé
There is no armor like perseverance. Sogyal Rinpoche
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, no adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this. Ryan Holiday
There's no talent here. This is hard work. This is obsession. Talent does not exist. Conor McGregor
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough, and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Longfellow
To persevere, trusting in what hopes one has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs. Euripides
Anything I Have begun is always on my mind, and I am not easy while away from it until it is finished. Thomas Edison
Ad many strokes, though with little ax, hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak. Shakespeare
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch
Perseverance is the most underrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent, beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. Sydney Harris

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