In today’s post, we’ll be delving into the power of sticking things out.
No matter what struggles you’re facing or what situation you’re in, whether professional or personal, cultivating the power of perseverance will allow you to make the best of anything that comes your way.
What makes perseverance so powerful?
Why You Should Read Perseverance Quotes
The term perseverance comes in many guises – persistence, grit, toughing it out, sticking with it, going the long haul, and shaking the dust off. All these phrases help illustrate how people refer to and think about the concept of perseverance.
In a nutshell, perseverance is the ability to continue with something regardless of what’s happening. You may not get the results you want from your fitness program now, but if you keep exercising it’s all but guaranteed.
In fact, the power of perseverance is easy to understand – you can’t help but succeed at something if you just keep going with it. So, if we all know how good perseverance is, why do you need to read quotes about it?
Because while perseverance is a simple phenomenon, simple is not the same as easy. It takes a ton of willpower to continue with an action day in and day out when you’re not seeing positive results.
In our society of ever-advancing technology and instant gratification, it takes more discipline than ever to keep this in mind. Also, it’s often considered smart to try something different when things aren’t working for you. However, the issue here is that if you change direction whenever things get difficult then you won’t make any lasting progress or achieve success at all.
To use another fitness example; if you start a program with new exercises you’ll see quick results but as you improve things taper off – your bench press numbers don’t increase as much or you aren’t running much faster.
It’s tempting to start an entirely new exercise program, but this doesn’t achieve anything in the long run and in a few months' time you’ll see many of these people crash out of the gym with little to nothing in the way of results.
What happens here can be easily applied to business – sometimes you have to stick with an idea for it to flourish, lest you end up chasing your own tail and going nowhere and seeing no success.
100 Perseverance Quotes to Help You Never Give Up
- “To see things in the seed, that is genius.” – Lao Tzu
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “Pain doesn’t get easier. You just have to get stronger.” – Elizabeth Lim
- “We must undergo a hard winter training and not rush into things for which we haven’t prepared.” – Epictetus
- “When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.” – Jacob August Riis
- “Learn to maintain your objectivity, especially when it’s hardest.” – Shane Parrish
- “I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” – Marie Curie
- A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
- “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” – Winston Churchill
- “You might be winning but you’re not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning.” – Jordan Peterson
- “If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.” – Dave Ramsey
- “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” – Isak Dinesen
- “The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” – Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” – Mignon McLaughlin
- “In spite of everything, Enrique has failed again – he will not reach the United States this time, either. He tells himself over and over that he’ll just have to try again.” – Sonia Nazario
- “The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.” – James Clear
- “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” – Roger Von Oech
- “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
- “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.” – John Milton
- “A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
- “Endurance is patience concentrated.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.” – Plutarch
- “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
- Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It’s about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.” – Dean Koontz
- “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
- “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
- “But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.” – William Shakespeare
- “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- ″‘I’ll find it!’ cried Horton. ‘I’ll find it or bust! I SHALL find my friends on my small speck of dust!‘” – Dr. Seuss
- “You don’t need an easier life, but rather an attitude of perseverance. Attitude precedes outcome.” – James Clear
- “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo
- “Everyone wants some magic pill – some life hack – that eliminates the need to do the work. But that does not exist.” – Jocko Willink
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
- “The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui – these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.” – David Foster Wallace
- “How long should you try? Until.” – Jim Rohn
- I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” – Flavia Weedn
- “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “On and on you will hike, And I know you’ll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.” – Dr. Seuss
- “When I reach the place of my dreams, I will thank my failures and tears. They too, kept me going.” – Dodinsky
When I reach the place of my dreams, I will thank my failures and tears. They too, kept me going.” – Dodinsky
- “Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.” – John Wooden
- “To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can’t let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.” – Kristin Hannah
- “Persistence is underrated and pedigree is overrated.” – Anthony Pompliano
- “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – 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
- “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” – Harper Lee
- “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George Edward Woodberry
- “Somebody out there thinks you’re an idiot. Somebody out there thinks you’re brilliant. Ignore them both and carry on.” – Jack Butcher
- “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” – Andrew Carnegie
- “It’s always too early to quit.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” – George M. Moore Jr.
- “Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
- “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
- “Superhuman effort…isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.” – Ernest Shackleton
- “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “It always seems impossible until it's done.” – Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until it's done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
- “One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday.” – Angela Duckworth
- “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “For perseverance is not resignation, putting up with things the way they are, staying in the same old rut year after year, or being a doormat for people to wipe their feet on.” – Eugene Peterson
- “A crowbar is a universal pass key.” – Terry Pratchett
- “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
- “It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated.” – J. K. Rowling
- “I don’t have talent, so I just get up earlier.” – Henry Rollins
- “Wanting to win isn’t enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.” – John C. Maxwell
- “Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.” – Lord Chesterfield
- “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
- “If you’re willing to bleed a little every day, you may win big later.” – Naval Ravikant
- “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
- “Persistence is self-discipline in action.” – Brian Tracy
- “The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.” – Lady Aberdeen
- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather
- “Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what’s next. And then you go for even more.” – Tim S. Grover
- “A savage mindset is a conditioned mindset that knows quitting is not part of the plan. It knows that it has to find a way around any and all obstacles to complete the mission.” – David Goggins
- “All great achievements require time.” – Maya Angelou
- “The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.” – James Whitcomb Riley
- “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.” – Robin Sharma
- “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
- “Just like there’s a time that a smart person know enough is enough, there’s a time when you know you’ve got to fight.” – Christopher Paul Curtis
- “It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
- “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I’m sick of not knowing about my life.” – Sophie Kinsella
- “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Empty as the man’s mind was of thoughts, he was keenly observant, and he noticed the changes in the creek, the curves and bends and timber jams, and always he sharply noted where he placed his feet.” – Jack London
- “The great end of life is not knowledge but action.” – Francis Bacon
- “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “I would rather fail pushing forward than in retreat.” – Grant Cardone
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli
- “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
Final Thoughts on Perseverance Quotes
No matter who you are, cultivating an attitude of perseverance towards difficulty can help you succeed in any environment. It’s one of those simple and undeniable facts that you have to willfully remind yourself of – but the reward is worth the effort.
For more concrete examples of what perseverance can do for you, check out these 15 famous autodidacts who live a life of self-education.
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Tom Smith is a creative writer with over 6 years of professional experience. He discovered the joy of writing after covering some furniture in his childhood home with graffiti. In later years, he got himself a BA in creative writing and hasn’t looked back. After discovering the power of positive thinking and discovering the spiritual side of life, he believes it's a huge privilege to be able to write about all things personal development.
Tom Smith is a creative writer with over 6 years of professional experience. He discovered the joy of writing after covering some furniture in his childhood home with graffiti. In later years, he got himself a BA in creative writing and hasn’t looked back. After discovering the power of positive thinking and discovering the spiritual side of life, he believes it's a huge privilege to be able to write about all things personal development.
