120 Perseverance Quotes to Develop Never Give Up Attitude

Perseverance is an extremely important success factor to excel in life. Perseverance means determination at working hard consistently; regardless of any problems, difficulties, odds or obstacles that may exist.  It is to insist and to be firm on getting something done and not giving up. Perseverance exhibits your commitment towards your goal. It is a great life hack to use, and it doesn’t require any educational qualification or training, when you want to make a difference in your life through it. Perseverance comes naturally and requires a strong will. Here are top Perseverance and Never Give Up quotes to help you find inspiration.

Perseverance Quotes

1. “Perseverance is the key to success. Never give up and keep making efforts. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” ~ Invajy

2. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. “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

4. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” ~ Walter Elliott

5. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.” ~ H. Jackson Brown

6. “Never, never, never, never give up.” ~ Winston Churchill 

7. “Don’t give up before the miracle happens.” ~ Fannie Flagg

8. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ~ Confucius

9. “Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.” ~ Ben Carson
10. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ~ Maya Angelou

Quotes on Perseverance

11. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton
12. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” ~ Victor Hugo
13. “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
14. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
15. “In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
16. “We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.” ~ Andy Biersack
17. “We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” ~ Helen Keller
18. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. “Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.” ~ William Cobbett
20. “God helps those who persevere.” ~ The Koran

Never Give Up Quotes

21. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
22. “I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.” ~ Tom Hopkins
23. “Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.” ~ Gillian Anderson
24. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” ~ Pele
25. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
26. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela
27. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
28. “You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.” ~ Tom Hiddleston
29. “Keep trying until you have no more chances left.” ~ Aimee Carter
30. “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” ~ Henry Wadsworth

Quotes about Perseverance and Never Give Up

31. “You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.” ~ Lou Holtz
32. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” ~ H.G. Wells
33. “The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.” ~ Azim Premji
34. “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
35. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” ~ Ovid

36. “It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.” ~ Lynn Davies
37. “Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realize the great life.” ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
38. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” ~ Elvis Presley
39. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” ~ Billie Jean King
40. “Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” ~ George Eliot

Inspiring Perseverance Quotes and Sayings

41. “It’s not how we fall. It’s how we get back up again.” ~ Patrick Ness
42. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” ~ William Feather
43. “Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.” ~ Charles Jones
44. “We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges.” ~ Wendy Kopp
45. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston S. Churchill

46. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt
47. “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
48. “If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.” ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
49. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” ~ John Quincy Adams
50. “Hardships make or break people.” ~ Margaret Mitchell

Best Perseverance Quotes

51. “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” ~Buddha
52. “There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.” ~ Sophie Swetchine
53. “…A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.” ~ Brandon Sanderson
54. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” ~ Robert Collier
55.  “Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

56. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ~ Albert Einstein
57. “”I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.” ~ Steve Jobs
58. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” ~ George M. Moore Jr.
59. “It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”~ Anthony Robbins
60. “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow.”~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Quote about Dedication and Persistence

61. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ~ James A. Michener
62. “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams
63. “Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.” ~ Robin Sharma
64. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
65. “A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.” ~ Charles de Gaulle 
66. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”~ Newt Gingrich
67. “It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.” ~ Jenny Han
68. “Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don’t even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.” ~ Jayleigh Cape 
69. “He who can have patience can have what he will.” ~ Benjamin Franklin 
70. “Everything works out in the end. if it hasn’t worked out yet, then it’s not the end.” ~ Tracy McMillan 

More Perseverance and Never Give Up Quotes

71. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
72. “The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” ~ Kalpana Chawla
73. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” ~ Helen Keller
74. “If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” ~ Samuel Johnson
75. “There always comes a time in life where you can either give up or step up.” ~ Graeme Rodaughan  
76. “The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying” ~ John C. Maxwell
77. “The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I’m sick of not knowing about my life.” ~ Sophie Kinsella
78. “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
79. “For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.” ~ Plutarch
80. “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” ~ Winston Churchill

Perseverance Quotes

81. “You don’t need an easier life, but rather an attitude of perseverance. Attitude precedes outcome.” ~ James Clear
82. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” ~ Vince Lombardi
83. “Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
84. “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
85.  “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” ~ Louis Pasteur 
86. “The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.” ~ Lady Aberdeen
87. “The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.” ~ David Sarnoff
88. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
89. “Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
90. “What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich 

Power of Perseverance Quotes

91. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas Edison
92. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
93. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” ~ Japanese Proverb
94. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ~ Dale Carnegie
95. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” ~ Marie Curie
96. “That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.” ~ Bill Watterson
97. “Life, Stormy says, 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
98. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” ~ Julie Andrews
99. “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” ~ Roger Von Oech 
100. “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” ~ Isak Dinesen

Perseverance Quotes

101. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.”~ Gena Showalter
102. “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
103. “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
104. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~ Henry Ford
105. “A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” ~ B.F. Skinne
106. “Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?'” ~ Richard Carlson
107. “What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?” ~ Karen Salmansohn
108. “As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” ~ Dr. Steve Maraboli
109. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie
110. “Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.” ~ Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Quotes about Perseverance

111. “We will either find a way or make one.” ~ Hannibal
112. “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost
113. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” ~ George Edward Woodberry
114. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
115. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ~ Babe Ruth
116. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” ~ Walter Elliot
117. “The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
118. “I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” ~ Marie Curie
119. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
120. “It’s always too soon to quit!” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

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