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

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”

Boys, there ain’t no free lunches in this country. And don’t go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance.
Lee Iacocca

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

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

Never, never, never give up!
Winston Churchill

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
William Faulkner

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

He conquers who endures.
Persius

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Stay the course, light a star,

Change the world where’er you are.
Richard Le Gallienne

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

You can’t go through life quitting everything. If you’re going to achieve anything, you’ve got to stick with something.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Brian Tracy

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
Samuel Johnson

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller

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

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.

Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
William Shakespeare

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy -
this is success!
Sasha Azevedo

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Lucretius

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
Stephen Kaggwa

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
Thomas Foxwell Buxton

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Buddhist Saying

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Dan Rather

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on.
Virgil

Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
Hector Crawford

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.�
Amos Bronson Alcott

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one has given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.”
Jane Addams

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
G.B. Shaw

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other�
Walter Elliot

One may go a long way after one is tired.
French Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.