Quotes about Perseverance
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
— Victor Hugo
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
— Francis de Sales
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
— Henry David Thoreau
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
— Helen Keller
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
— Ruth Gordon
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
— Epictetus
The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
— Anonymous
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
— Dale Carnegie
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln