Perseverance Quotes

“To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:

1) Count your blessings first
2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better
3) Go step by step, One day at a time.
4) Create/make your own opportunities.
5) Believe in your abilities at all times,
6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.
7) Finish what you started”
― Pablo

“Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.”
― Silvia Hartmann, Sorcerer and Apprentice

“Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst
Den bästa dagen, är en dag av törst

Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd
Men det är vägen, som är mödan värd”
― Karin Boye, Dikter

“allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...]
There is no royal road to perfection.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.”
― Andre Dubus

“PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT'S A MESSY JOURNEY.”
― Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human

“Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.”
― Lance Armstrong

“...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I've learned that sometimes you just have to keep on going when you want to do nothing but drop. And that just doing the everyday things, like keeping a shop running or getting up every morning, will keep the work going until things can straighten out again. And doing those things right every day soon becomes more important than the more pressing issues of the time.”
― Ann Rinaldi, Time Enough for Drums

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

- Jósef Piłsudski”
― Neal Ascherson, Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero

“Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn’t stay still. Why stay still now?”
― Rob Liano

“You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.”
― Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human

“Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…”
― Jocelyn Murray, The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople

“True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.”
― Chris Messner

“Fall ten times, stand up eleven.”
― Shannon Alder

“Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.”
― Amy Denise

“This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement to get back on the wall. It’s a crazy rollercoaster and I owe my family and partners a great deal for encouraging me through it all.”
― Tommy Caldwell

“I study the chessboard and concede defeat.
"You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.”
― Mary Beth Chapman, Choosing to SEE

“Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.”
― Orrin Woodward, LIFE

“Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.”
― Ken Norton

“In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.”
― Benjamin N. Cardozo

“The sated day is never first
The best day is a day of thirst

Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path -
but it is the way that is the labour's worth.”
― Karin Boye, Complete Poems

“I'm just a regular guy who up until a few years ago totally underestimated what I felt I was capable of. Since then my experiences have taught me that we are all capable of the extraordinary in our lives.”
― Ray Zahab, Running To Extremes: Ray Zahab's Amazing Ultramarathon Journey

“Stick in and do my best.”
― Rhona Cameron, Nineteen Seventy Nine: A Big Year in a Small Town

“Perseverance and gratefulness makes ​hope closer to the blessing.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut