Perseverance Quotes

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie

Life, Confidence, Easy

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi

Life, Work, Respect

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

Work, Tired, Hard

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu

Good, Beautiful, Together

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson

Leadership, Best, Character

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle

Strong, Soul, Weak

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Real, Everything, Ideas

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
Anthony Hamilton

Patience, Pain, Learned

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Long, After, Short

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Times, Failing, Succeeding

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller

Success, Nature, Everything

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles Spurgeon

Snail, Ark, Reached

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Strength, Impossible

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

Patience, Before, Obstacles

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strong, Between, Won

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

Life, Hope, Experience

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo

Secret, Triumphs

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success, Great, Long

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.
Scott Brooks

Life, Time, Mom

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose Bierce

Success, Mediocrity, Virtue

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

Good, Failure, Long

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
Scott Hamilton

Give, Adversity, Value

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli

Success, Failure, Win

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Cannot, Child

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

Down, Before, Around

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Strength, Works

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

Courage, Before, Obstacles

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

Together, Cannot, Violence

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Lou Holtz

Successful, Sacrifice, Find

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi

Success, Succeed, Effort

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