Quotes

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein

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

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-Christopher Morley

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
-Anonymous Author

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

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

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
-Anonymous Author

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
-William Cobbett

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
-Lucretius

One may go a long way after one is tired.
-French Proverb

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
-William James

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
-Mark Twain

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, at whatever cost, must be attained.
-Marie Curie

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

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

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.
-Bible

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
-Anonymous Author

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.
-Samuel Johnson

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
-Gillian Anderson

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

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

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

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.

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

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

O the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance.
-Hipponax the Satirist

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it.
-Mark Twain

I do not think 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

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
-Anonymous Author

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
-William Feather

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

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

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