25 Inspirational Quotes on Perseverance To Encourage You Through tough Times

Perseverance is the relentless attempt to achieve success and accomplish your desired goals. You achieve not simply by trying, but by persevering. Perseverance is your willpower in action, an internal driving force pushing you to get things done despite a lack of resources, countless obstacles, and time constraints. It is built on an inner strength that leans on desire, self-confidence, courage, diligence, and faith to stay the course.

Here are 25 perseverance quotes to encourage you to not simply speak about it, but also to live everyday displaying your will to win.

1.) “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”  – Flavia Weedn

2.) “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Author Unknown

3.) “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison

4.) “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.” – Henry Ward Beecher

5.) “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur

6.) “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi Jr.

7.) “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering

8.) “Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!” – T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”

9.) “Though you may hear me holler, and you may see me cry– I’ll be dogged, sweet baby, if you gonna see me die.” – Langston Hughes

10.) “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, ‘press on’ has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge

11.) “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams

12.) “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

13.) “The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.” – Lady Aberdeen

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

15.) “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln

16.) “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

17.) “The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.” – Anonymous

18.) “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.” – H. Jackson Brown

19.) “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” – Douglas MacArthur

20.) “How long should you try? UNTIL!” – Jim Rohn

21.) “Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life.” – Dodinsky

22.) “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

23.) “Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.” – Leigh Mitchell Hodges

24.) “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher

25.) “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli