Perseverance Quotes

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
- Marva Collins

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.
- Anonymous Author

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

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
- Bible

You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.' It's called perseverance.
- Lee Iacocca

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
- William Shakespeare

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
- Benjamin Disraeli