Quotes About Perseverance

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston Churchill

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston Churchill

“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, The Last Lecture

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
― Winston Churchill

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston Churchill, Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
― Babe Ruth

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
― Winston Churchill

“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
― Charles Jones, Life is Tremendous

“We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Whatever gets you through the night”
― John Lennon

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
― Ovid

“That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.”
― Bill Watterson

“Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I'm saying?”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit”
― Vince Lombardi Jr.

“Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.”
― Jarod Kintz