Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Persistence.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Euripides
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Never, never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
Richard Petty
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Percy Ross
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
H. Ross Perot
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
William Wordsworth
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
Ambrose Bierce
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
William Shakespeare
If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
Anthony Robbins
Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.
Tom Bradley
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.
I Ching
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas Henry Huxley
