PERSEVERANCE QUOTES

quotations about perseverance

Perseverance quote

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

NELSON MANDELA

Autobiography

Tags: Nelson Mandela


Days when you just don't have it, you don't mail it in, you don't pack it in, you give it everything you've got. You grind it out, I don't care what kind of game you have, you somehow try and find a way to get it done ... That's part of my attitude and belief, that you should always have the switch on. You can't turn it on and off.

TIGER WOODS

interview, February 23, 2006

Tags: Tiger Woods


It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

VINCE LOMBARDI

attributed, Motivation Lombardi Style

Tags: Vince Lombardi


Persevere and be firm.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

BARACK OBAMA

speech, July 12, 2006

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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The Sibley Journal of Engineering, 1928

Tags: Franklin D. Roosevelt


Perseverance will overcome difficulties, which at first appear insuperable; and it is amazing to consider how great and numerous obstacles may be removed by a continual attention to any particular point.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Connoisseur, July 29, 1756

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It ain't over 'til it's over.

YOGI BERRA

attributed, Driving Mr. Yogi

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In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

DEAN KOONTZ

Odd Thomas

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

oration at Plymouth, 1802

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Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.

MINNIE RICHARD SMITH

"Stick to Your Job"


Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Little strokes fell great oaks.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack

Tags: Benjamin Franklin


Life ... 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

Odd Thomas

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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

NELSON MANDELA

Long Walk to Freedom

Tags: Nelson Mandela


Pig-headed stubbornness is the perseverance of somebody we don't like.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs

Tags: Robert Elliott Gonzales


Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Edward Fergus Graham, April 23, 1810

Tags: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the draft turns into the sketch and the sketch into the painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

letter to Theo van Gogh, July 1880

Tags: Vincent van Gogh


Perseverance is a Roman virtue, that wins each godlike act, and plucks success even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.

HAVARD

attributed, Day's Collacon