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Perseverance Quotes


"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."



"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position."


"Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them."


"When life belittle and trick you, you will forget protocol..."


"I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice."


"At the end of the race nobody really cares about how you started, so stay laser focused and finish strong. Get ready to proclaim "I did it!"


"As bad as you are thinking of giving up, you still have more drive left in you. Winning is something that you were born to experience on earth. Keep on pushing with faith and perseverance, something greatly rewarding will surely happen down the line."


"When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you'll be okay in a short time."



"The only way round is through."


"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost."


"Struggles put you in a position to make better decisions. You'll survive and should take the lessons learned especially in order to move forward in life. It may have been raining in your life for a moment, but the sun will shine again."


"It's not about winning. But it's about not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it."


"I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled."


"Patience is a skill that brings beauty. Patience brings strength. Patience brings happiness - Practice patience and you will achieve your goals!"


"Rise flexibly, courageously and perseveringly upon the challenges and trials in our life. Beneath the depth of fresh wounds, heavy cross and years of scars, is our wise silent mind, a beating faithful heart with understanding and patience matched with a humble soul who walks with hope towards charity, kindness, peace and harmony."


"One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity."


"Success is climbing all the way up failure's steep ladder."


"Don't ever sleep forever and don't forever be at rest and leave the rest whilst you live though the journey of life can sometimes be so arduous! If you can't run, crawl! If you do not want to crawl, walk! If you think walking will waste your time, gallop and if galloping is below your strength and true standard, dare to speed unrelentingly and dare to overcome all challenges! You shall always sleep or slumber only to wake up one day and realize the wide distance between you and they that crawled each second of time to the final destination of purposeful life and living unceasingly! Wake up each day and do something in the day!"



"Nosoi? Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end."You haven't killed me yet, I noted."Don't tempt me."


"The toughness of any journey means absolutely nothing to a mind that travels with the spirit of perseverance."


"True champions, like the sun, cannot be eclipsed for long."


"Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail."


"But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for."


"Flames burn so long as they are fed. Rivers rage so long as it rains. The sun rises so long as the earth rotates. Prayers are answered so long as they are uttered.Hope exists so long as there is a new day. Miracles never cease so long as there is faith. Love endures so long as kindness rules all actions. Dreams thrive so long as they are pursued. Never give up so long as you live."



"Without delayed gratification, there is no patience."


"My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it."


"If you have the dedication, means and patience to treat your daily struggle, like a step towards success, something bigger will come your way."


"Go out and do your thing knowing that rejection and failure is an inevitable and integral part of the process to achieving your dreams."


"A star will shine in the midst of darkness. A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt. A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt. A diamond will form in the midst of pressure. A champion will rise in the midst of hardship."


"Keep your mental sight fully focused on the prize ahead; so that if you happen to fall, it would motivate you to get back up and keep moving forward."


"No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there."


"Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges."


"For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result."


"If you have the understanding to first notice the signs, continue with the courage to follow them."


"We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there's always another bottom underneath the one we're laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there's always endless opportunity above us."


"Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try."


"It is ok to make mistakes in life as long as you try again."



"The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance."


"Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart's blood must gem with red beads the brow of the combatant, before the wreath of victory rustles over it."



"It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder-or impossible-to lose."


"Don't give up.I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time."


"Never give up on your journey to success, even if your feet give up on you."



"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."



"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."


"A fruitless year, take a fearless heartOne that blooms late will flourish in the dark."


"Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it."


"Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength."
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