Perseverance Quotes

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

"No great thing is created suddenly."

"Becoming is better than being."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"The only way to get to the other side is to go through it."

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence."

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

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

"The difference in winning and losing is most often... not quitting."

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"If you are tired, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going."

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

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

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