Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Persistence.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Lucretius
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
David Zucker
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
George Allen
Persevere and get it done.
It's rest I want--there, I have said it out--From cooking meals for hungry hired menAnd washing dishes after them--from doingThings over and over that just won't stay done.By good rights I ought not to have so muchPut on me, but there seems no other way.Len says one steady pull more ought to do it.He says the best way out is always through.And I agree to that, or in so farAs that I can see no way out but through--Leastways for me--and then they'll be convinced.http://melange.enigmatic.org/archive/2004-06/bestwayoutisthrough.php
Robert Frost, A Servant to Serva
The two most powerful weapons are courage and persistence. Nothing can stop a person armed with both.
Scott Sorrell
Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.
Charles Dickens
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
Ulysses Simpson Grant
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
Bertrand Russell
Don't halt before you are lame.
English Proverb
It's always too soon to quit.
David T. Scoates
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim Rohn
How long should you try? Until.
