Inspirational Perseverance Quotes & Sayings

Hebrews 12:1- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. — Anonymous

Only those who never stand up, never fall down. — Fedor Emelianenko

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering. — Jeff Goins

Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.
The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end. — Louis Sachar

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch

Sometimes the smallest push leads to the greatest triumph. — Charles F. Glassman

Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance. — Agus Ekanurdi

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down. — Jessica Lave

Don't quit when you encounter an obstacle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Focusing on our individual steps can cure the paralysis and overwhelm, which sometimes occurs when staring into the future. — Charles F. Glassman

If you can endure, if you can persevere, if you can work and not grow weary, if you're both obsessed and talented, well, you might have a shot. — Auliq Ice

In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with us play some part in our progress. They are oftentimes to rouse our stubborn sins to the surface, where we can deal with them and overcome them. Bundled together in families, a giant seven or nine or fifteen legged pack, we seem to make very poor progress indeed and fall to the ground in bickering heaps with some regularity. But God has put us together - has appointed each person in your bundle specifically for you, and you for them. And so, 'little children, let us love one another' with might and main, and keep hopping together toward the finish line. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes. — Tamora Pierce

Imagination, persistence, perseverance, and trust transform dreams into reality. — Debasish Mridha

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism.
Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. — Alistair Urquhart

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

Arise in mighty strength to pursue your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Let your passion fuel your perseverance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes we must gravitate towards madness before we can levitate on greatness. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

If you persistently knock, door will definitely be opened. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter how heavy the challenges we face in our life, embrace optimism, perseverance, tenacity and courage. Never lose faith and hope and a generous heart who live and breathes with a timeless love. — Angelica Hopes

The source of greatness lies in commitment, persistence, and perseverance. — Debasish Mridha

It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it. — Dave Eggers

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. — Amar Bose

Do not complain, pray for courage to endure the situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is like a camera. Just focus and concentrate on the objective. See what is your most important goal image for success, and ignore distracting details. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, keep at it. Take more shots and be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen. Use perseverance. — Mark LaMoure

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come. — Og Mandino

The word try, means nothing. There's no such thing as trying to do something. The moment you begin a task, you're doing it. So just finish what you're doing. — La Tisha Honor

Magically, hopelessness gives rise to profound hope. — Stefan Emunds

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Armed with faith, determination and perseverance anyone can achieve there goals. The power of the human mind is the most powerful force in the universe, what we conceive with integrity, hard work, education and a positive spirit we can accomplish. — Unknown

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

The enthusiasm to work hard and endless determination are the two great skills for success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to live henceforth with a minimum of suffering. And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless. — Dean Koontz

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end. — Plato

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. — John C. Maxwell

When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I. — Dana Arcuri

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it's true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous. — Steven Pressfield

Whoever dare dream, must do much activity to realize the dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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. — Karen Blixen

Yours are the only shoes made to walk your journey. — Charles F. Glassman

Through powerful and heartfelt communication with the universe, you can create a new world everyday-you can be proud of. — Pooja Ruprell

Never give up. You must persist! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Starting requires motivation, finishing demands perseverance. — Moagi Keretetse

My day will come, but until then, I patiently continue moving forward.
-Never allow yourself to become stagnant- — Andrea L'Artiste

The odds may be stacked against you. Yet, I believe, when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of
purpose, passion, and perseverance, you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and the rest of us. — Charles F. Glassman

Freedom is a place, an area. It's a higher place. There are some other people that are here, and things that are here which are unseen. But you first have to set yourself free and believe in what you cannot see, believe that there is something more out there. In freedom can be found many devotions: a devotion to love, a desire to believe, a willingness to be happy, a perseverance to have peace. All these unseen things breathe and grow in the unseen soul. A free person is not an uncommitted person, but in a free person you will find a deep devotion, and a desire to be devoted to even more. — C. JoyBell C.

Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is. — Rob Liano

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. — Madeleine K. Albright

I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains. — Richelle E. Goodrich

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough. — Philibert Joseph Roux

If you fall, dare to rise up again. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

You must rise up anytime you fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Small caterpillars still become big butterflies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The Swimmer's Advantage:
1)The goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get them there.
2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head the above water.
3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead.
4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts. — Lijia Zhang

Alas! Alas!
When in the skies there are no limits
only the forceful perseverance of the mind stripping through clouds
and creating the ever so beautiful shades of abundant success. — Priscilla Koranteng

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance. — Sharon Salzberg

Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. — Charles F. Glassman

The beauty of adversity is that when we hit bottom, the only way to go is up. — Dana Arcuri

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal. — Criss Jami

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. — Abigail Adams

Success is like a camera. Focus and concentrate on the objective. See your most important goal image for success, and ignore distracting details. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, keep at it. Take more shots and be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen. Visualize optimum success and use perseverance. — Mark LaMoure

If you miss your bus, just start walking. — Shan McGinley

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back. — Yvette Christianse

You have to be determined on your quest for the fulfilment you need, and while you struggle, living and searching, carry a determined face, heart and spirit more than your inner perseverance.
When you're earnestly searching for a job or something valuable in thriving on this life, let determination be your mindset. Have that creativity, resourceful spirit, inquisitive behaviour and resilience matching your gut to succeed in your search. — Angelica Hopes

There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are always periodic opportunities to give up, while every single moment is an opportunity to persevere. — Dean F. Wilson

An ordinary intellect will, by industry and perseverance, often accomplish more than a much superior one, deficient in energy and the power of endurance. — L.G. Abell

What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked.
Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying. — Brandon Mull

Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it. — James Ramsey Ullman

It feels good to show some courage. — Joe Namath

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

The biggest and first obstacle any artist faces is not believing they can do something. You have the talent. Just believe you are capable of doing it, because you are. Writing anything, for anyone, regardless of expertise, is like crossing the Atlantic in a canoe. What you are doing is saying "I don't know how to row". Start rowing, you will get there. Just know it will take time and perseverance, but you will get there! — Aaron Denius Garcia

Never give up on your existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. — Joseph Addison

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch

If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come ... just be patient. — Charles F. Glassman

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great. — Preston Morgan

Everything started as nothing. — Auliq Ice

My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it. — Michael Joling

Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come. — Mandy Hale

They always said my books were ass. The next one I wrote told them to kiss it! — Khali Raymond

Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead..because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes the strain. The goal beckons them onward. Passion doesn't negate weariness; it just resolves to press beyond it. — Priscilla Shirer

When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone. — Autumn Morning Star

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. — Thomas A. Edison

If you've ever had a dream or goal that you've aspired to accomplish, never give up on it. If you have the perseverance and determination to follow your passion, then you can see it come into fruition. Surround yourself with positive people, keep your eyes on the prize and big doors will open. Be ready to step into them because once you do, there's no turning back. — LaChelle Weaver

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. — Calvin Coolidge

Be passionately devoted to your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent. — Elon Musk

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

The power of the Will in a man, is favoured by the Heavens. The man who sets his Heart and Word onto something, and says "I will" no matter what obstacle is placed in his way - joins the ranks of the demi-gods. All else remain in mortality and are soon forgotten. — C. JoyBell C.

[ ... ] 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

Sometimes, something meaningless occurs, somewhere with meaning. — F. Thomas Vincent

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. — Ovid

With certainty, courage and commitment, the dream will be a reality. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We dream. We aspire. We hope. Sure, we can get down too. But it's not about that. It's not those moments that define us. It's those times when we're looking forward, seeing that brighter future, and acting on it. — Zechariah Barrett

When I remove the layers that say I can't, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will. — Charles F. Glassman

Don't believe you've reached the end before you've even reached the beginning. — Charles F. Glassman