Perseverance Quotes

• Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Strong
  • Air
  • Courage

• A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

  

  William Feather
  • Succeed
  • Determination
  • Perseverance

• In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Ideas
  • Enthusiasm
  • Perseverance

• Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Passion
  • Inspiration
  • Excellence

• If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• (The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Stories
  • Bigs
  • Perseverance

• God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Judge
  • Perseverance

• But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • Creativity
  • Lawyer
  • Sat

• One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Firsts
  • Principles
  • Stubbornness

• Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Work
  • Tired
  • Perseverance

• I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

  

  Scott Brooks
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Eye

• I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Art
  • Christian
  • Perseverance

• Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Grace Of God

• It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Long
  • Perseverance

• Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

  

  William Godwin
  • Influence
  • Encouraging
  • Perseverance

• What we reliably find is that people's perseverance scores are actually higher than their passion scores, and I think it really does get to the fact that working hard is hard, but maybe finding your passion is even more difficult.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Passion
  • Perseverance

• It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

  

  Scott Hamilton
  • Value
  • Adversity
  • Self-Esteem

• You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

  

  Geraldine Brooks
  • Going
  • Keep
  • Behinds

• Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.

  

  Daniel James Brown
  • Work
  • Together
  • Simple

• It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

  

  Renee O'Connor
  • Television
  • Hard
  • Perseverance

• Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Work
  • Study
  • Kissing

• To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

  

  William Osler
  • Effort
  • Struggle
  • Made

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