Quotes about Persistence
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
— Harold S. Kushner
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
— Norman Vincent Peale
A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.
— Christine Caine
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
— Samuel Johnson
Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.
— Pope Francis
Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.
— Barack Obama
If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!
— Michael Jordan
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
— Napoleon Hill
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
— Maya Angelou
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
— John Wooden
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
— Zig Ziglar