Perseverance Quotes

"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

"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
-Robert Frost

"It always seems impossible until its done."
-Nelson Mandela

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

"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
-Christopher Reeve

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
-Samuel Johnson

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

"God is with those who persevere."
-Quran

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark. "
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."
-Napoleon Hill

"I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan."
-Spike Lee

"I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive."
-Elizabeth Taylor

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
-Steve Jobs

"Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty."
-George W. Bush

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

"I did not expect that we would emerge on top. I would have been content for us to finish in the middle of the pack. But all the hard work, patience and perseverance of my players are paying off."
-Nel Parado

"She's been through it. I admire her perseverance."
-Amy Stephens

"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

"Our defense kept bending and bending and giving up things here and there, but they never really broke. I thought that showed a lot of perseverance in the way they played."
-Shawn Berner

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

"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

"Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none."
-I Ching

"So much of being a success is perseverance as much as ideas."
-Sophia Collier

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

"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
-William Godwin

"We are saddened by the untimely loss of a great humanitarian, workers' leader and a deep fountain of human courage, dedication and perseverance."
-Willies Mchunu

"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves."
-Marie Curie

"The road to perseverance lies by doubt."
-Francis Quarles