PERSEVERANCE QUOTES
quotations about perseverance
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
NELSON MANDELA
Autobiography
Days when you just don't have it, you don't mail it in, you don't pack it in, you give it everything you've got. You grind it out, I don't care what kind of game you have, you somehow try and find a way to get it done ... That's part of my attitude and belief, that you should always have the switch on. You can't turn it on and off.
TIGER WOODS
interview, February 23, 2006
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Motivation Lombardi Style
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
BARACK OBAMA
speech, July 12, 2006
Persevere and be firm.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The Sibley Journal of Engineering, 1928
Perseverance will overcome difficulties, which at first appear insuperable; and it is amazing to consider how great and numerous obstacles may be removed by a continual attention to any particular point.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Connoisseur, July 29, 1756
It ain't over 'til it's over.
YOGI BERRA
attributed, Driving Mr. Yogi
In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Thomas
Power will accomplish much, but perseverance more.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
oration at Plymouth, 1802
Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
MINNIE RICHARD SMITH
"Stick to Your Job"
Life ... is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Thomas
Little strokes fell great oaks.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Table-Talk
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
NELSON MANDELA
Long Walk to Freedom
Pig-headed stubbornness is the perseverance of somebody we don't like.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
letter to Edward Fergus Graham, April 23, 1810
Keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the draft turns into the sketch and the sketch into the painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
letter to Theo van Gogh, July 1880
Perseverance is a Roman virtue, that wins each godlike act, and plucks success even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.
HAVARD
attributed, Day's Collacon