Persistence Quotes

Stay committed to your goals and overcome obstacles with these motivating persistence quotes, carefully curated to inspire determination, drive, and the unrelenting passion to turn your vision into reality.

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."

- Colin Powell

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

- Napoleon Hill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

- Walter Elliot

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Newt Gingrich

"The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance."

- Sun Yat-sen

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

- Thomas Fowell Buxton

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results."

- Robin Sharma

"Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time."

- Unknown

"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."

- Wilma Mankiller

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

- Edward Eggleston

"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased."

- Joel Osteen

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."

- Ann Landers

"Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."

- Unknown

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"I failed my way to success."

- Thomas Edison

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

- Napoleon Hill

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying."

- W. Clement Stone

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up."

- Babe Ruth

"Work hard in silence; let your success make the noise."

- Frank Ocean

"Be stronger than your excuses."

- Unknown

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."

- Marabel Morgan