50 Persistence Quotes that Inspire and Motivate

All human progress demands persistence. However, the world can be a nasty place. Pandemics and problems rear their ugly heads often unexpectedly. Lately, it has not been easy. A wise person once said, “When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”  Therefore, here are fifty other quotes to inspire you to try again and move forward.

Persistence Means: Do Not Quit

1. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”  Albert Einstein
2. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” Ann Landers
3. “Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”  Denis Waitley
4. “To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”  Anna Pavlova
5. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”  Benjamin Franklin
6. “As long as there’s breath in You–Persist!”  Bernard Kelvin Clive
7. “No great achievement is possible without persistent work.” Bertrand Russell
8.  “Just because you fail once does not mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” Marilyn Monroe
9. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”  Bill Bradley
10. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” Billy Jean King
11. “My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.” Bjorn Borg
12. “When I meet successful people, I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.” Kiana Tom
13. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.” Calvin Coolidge
14. “Persistence and determination are always rewarded.” Christine Rice
15. “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”  Colin Powell
16. “The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.” Lady Aberdeen Learn
    

    Persistence Defined: Keep on Keeping On

17. “Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” Dale Carnegie
18. “Talent is nothing without persistence.” Dean Crawford
19. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” Elbert Hubbard
20.  “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”  A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”
21. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”  James A. Michener
22. “The most essential factor is persistence–the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.  James Whitcomb Riley
23. “Money grows on the tree of persistence.” Japanese Proverb
24. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” Julie Andrews
25. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.” H. Jackson Brown
26. “Slight persistent effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do.”  Kelli Wilson
27. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”  Louis Pasteur
28. “P is for Persistence! Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Wishing will not; Talent will not; Genius will not; Education will not; Persistence is like a Genie that creates a magical force in your life.”  Lucas Remmerswaal 
29. “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”  Marabel Morgan
30. “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.”  Martin Luther King, Jr.
31.  “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”  Helen Keller
32. “Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”  Napoleon Hill
33. “It always seems impossible until it is done.”  Nelson Mandela
    

    Never Give Up!

34. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”  Newt Gingrich
35. “Patience and persistence are the keys… The keys to unlock doors of success… With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.”   Ogwo David Emenike
36. “He conquers who endures.”   Persius
37. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”   Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.”  Richelle E. Goodrich
39. “In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.”   Robert Fanney
40. “If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent, or genius can make up for it.” Stephen Richards
41. “In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.”   General George S Patton, Jr.
42. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try just one more time.”  Thomas Edison
43. “Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”   Thomas Carlyle
44. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”  Thomas Foxwell Buxton
45. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”  Thomas Jefferson
46. “We are made to persist. That is how we find out who we are.” Tobias Wolff
47. “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they have got a second.” William James
    

    Persistence: Try One More Time

48. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”  Winston Churchill
49. “Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.”  Swami Vivekananda
50. “Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”  Josh Billings

In summary, these quotes establish thoughts of courage and perseverance so that regardless of the circumstances you come out ahead. May these words be your mantra, “Climb high, climb far, your goal the sky, your aim the star.”

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