Perseverance

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."

"O Lord, ... have mercy upon me according to thy great mercy, for thy name's sake. And do not, on any account whatever, abandon what thou hast begun in me. Go on, rather, to complete what is yet imperfect in me."

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

"PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

"Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

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

"Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur."

"Run every day. If you can't run, walk fast. If you can't walk fast, walk as fast as you can. If you can't walk, limp. If you can't limp, crawl. If you can't crawl, roll. If you can't roll, imagine you are running."

"When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must—but don't you quit. … Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a faint and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the victor's cup. And he learned too late, when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown."

"What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned."

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

"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."

"If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities."

"Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth."

"The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown."

"Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure."

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

"Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak."

"Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery."

"Diamonds are only chunks of coal, That stuck to their jobs, you see."

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

"Nightmares never last, Mom. One day you wake up and they're gone."

"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."

"If we have no aptitude or natural taste for geometry this does not mean that our faculty for attention will not be developed by wrestling with a problem or studying a theorem. On the contrary it is almost an advantage. ... Without our knowing or feeling it, this apparently barren effort has brought more light into the soul. ... Every time that a human being succeeds in making an effort of attention with the sole idea of increasing his grasp of truth, he acquires a greater aptitude for grasping it, even if his effort produces no visible fruit."

"Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out."

"The waters wear the stones."

"God is with those who persevere."

"For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement!"

"The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks."

"Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo."

"So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er, though desperate of success."

"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."

"We shall escape the uphill by never turning back."

"The struggles you face are the pen…"

"Mountains don’t move for noise; they shift with persistence."