20 Amazing Quotes About Perseverance & Not Giving Up!

They're great.

Thanks

Mark

Thanks Jared, that's a great list! Powerful quotes from accomplished people always light a fire in me.

One of my favourites!

Here is another on for you...

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion!

and this is very true so try not to argue because it gets no where....

by the way all these quotes are really good I like all of them, I thought I should just add another...

Inspiring quotes to live by. The act of never backing down when troubles arises. Nice list specially about Jim Rohn.

I love this:
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Been there done that, moving on..Aint God good!

Great posts. As I've read through this I kept on nodding for it gives so much truth. There are times that we can't avoid but give up and I find it helpful having these kind of quotes.

Hadn't heard this one before, but I love it. It's so true and such a tangible metaphor.

Thanks Jared, here's one of my favourites from a famous Russian-turn-Australian boxing champ:

"If you want nothing, do what you want.
If you want everything, develop discipline"
- Kostya Tszyu

I've never read this quote until now, but it was this exact mentality that got me through nursing school.

Earl Nightingale is one of my all time favorite motivational speakers. He had a great speaking voice. I think he could have recited the alphabet and fascinated people. Good thing he lives on in recorded form.

Here are a couple of my favorites:

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

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Jacob A. Riis

Very nice,
Thank you
Mariusz

Hi Jared

Thanks for posting these

Gave me great boost today!!!

Zoe
Create a great day - everyday!!

Thanks Jared,

They are sitting in my printer ready to go up on my wall.

Nice quotes Jared! Thanks

Rick W.

Thank you for sharing these nice quotes.

Wonderful post/share Thankyou Jared!

I have this quote displayed as my desktop background. I read it all the time. It helps keep me focused.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle

One of the common threads in many of the twenty quotations is the need for perseverance.

Of all the qualities that feed success, nothing is more nutritious than perseverance. You get up every morning and keep going in the direction of your vision. If you take a hit, you lick the wound and then keep going. If you get depressed, you just ignore it and keep going.

The people who can do that will get to their dreams. The people who cannot will wake up one day to find that they are out of time and haven't done anything they wanted.

Who would you rather be?

@billapas - so true. If we let every knock and mistake in life lead us away from the path we are trying to follow we'd give up very quickly. These quotes are good to remind ourselves of the stance we want to take in the face of adversity.

I bet you could make a list of country songs with the same messages in

Some great quotes here, very inspiring

I wrote an article recently along the same lines ie; no such thing as failure PROOF: There Is No Such Thing As Failure | Saint Eve Marketing

Graphics not brilliant though, would have preferred a kind of 3d image (anyone help on that?)

I'm in need of these hahaha thanks

Some truly great quotes there!

One of my favourite's is: If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!

This is my kinda thread. I love talking about persistence and determination. These are attributes that ring true to everyone. If you talk about persistence and what it does for your results no one will ever argue with you - they can't.

Truth is like that.

Here's the grand-daddy of all persistence quotes: (A lot of offices have posters with this pinned on the walls)

PRESS ON
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 alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

J. Calvin Coolidge,
30th President of the United States of America



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

another one to add:

"Failure is the path of least persistence"

"Tie a knot, and hang on!!"

I LOVE it!

Thanks for the post,


Andrea, The English Webmistress

Thanks Jared, I saved this page immediately - just what I need at present :-)

Always EnJOY your Day - Every Day!!

Sunny

all great quotes thanks...I will share with friends

The Winston Churchill quote is definitely one of favorites. It says so much about how to deal with life. It will surely be my next tattoo.

My fav, short and simple - Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

usually i dont go in different forum at warrior forums but i m glad i did it today and got so much worthy things..
cheers.
Rajiv

"If at first you don't succeed, erase all evidence that you tried." ;-)

"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is NOT for you!"

"If at first you don't succeed, try a bigger hammer."

All of Winston Churchill's quotes are great (after all, he was originally an English teacher), but my favorite is this: "I drink a great deal. I eat all I want. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."

many thanks for these inspiring quotes I especially liked,
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

Do, there is no try!
-Yoda (Star Wars)

This is the nice one!

Thanks! You woke up my senses.

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
Henry W. Longfellow

Great words to live by! Thanks for posting them!

Hi Jared

Love the quotes and some I had not seen before, great post and will use some of them in my mantra's.

If someone else is trying to motivate you or you are doing something for someone else remember this quote....

"Motivation is a fire from within, if someone else tries to light that fire under you, the chances are it will burn very briefly."

Here's three of my favorites...

"A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds." Mark Twain

"Everything's impossible until it's possible."

"All great truths begins as blasphemies." Bernard Shaw

So true, have this in running all the time, the 2nd wind's an energy boost, renewed sources and freedom from the "wall u felt you were up against moments before hitting the 2nd wind!! >>
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- William James

I like this one:

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

It's so true to how and why most people fail

This made my day - thank you.

"I am sorry if I am a little bit too fast. It must have been the people I surround myself with everyday - They constantly challenge me. It never stops. It has kept me hungry for more and to be able to learn and share more. That's how I roll." - Michael Teoh.

I just had to add this in on perseverance.

bookmarked for reference! thanks for the quotes!

One of my favourites:

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. -Napoleon Hill

Great quotes......I love it!

Awesome! I love a good set of quotes. Thanks for sharing.

"Do or do not, there is no try."
"The bad news is that time flies, the good news is that you are the pilot."
"The difference between big shots and little shots, are that the big shots keep shooting."

"Live as if there is no tomorrow"

love quotes about perseverance. thanks you all

Great quotes !!

Thank you so much for posting this.

I am at a stage where things are really tough but it's quotes like these that keeps me going. I will perservere and come out the other end smiling with an amazing story to tell!

Nice quotes. I like that Einstein quote especially.

Thanks Jared. My all time favorite quote is "Fall seven times, stand up eight."
- Japanese Proverb

GREAT stuff for sure, thank you! i love a great bit of wisdom, and i guess for myself, packed with humor. i wrote a blog that said, it only took me 17 years, to become an "overnight success". Dr. M

Brilliant Jared, there's nothing better than some inspiring quotations!

Like this. Thanks

Be faithful in small things because it is in the that your strength lies.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

How long should you try? Until.
- Jim Rohn

Nice ending

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

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'Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away...'

'We can work it out...'

'Tomorrow never knows...'

From the two greatest philosophers the world has ever known, Lennon and McCartney, 50% of the Beatles.

You do not need to look past your stereo for 'Words of wisdom, Let It Be, Let It Be.'

Thank you for sharing those quotes.

My time won still remains Perseverance shall win all through {kinda piny emanyalo gimoro}

Great quotes. Thanks a lot for the share.

"Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself."

These are my three favs. This is great stuff, Jared. Glad you posted it. You never know when somebody might be needing a little encouragement. Thanks mate!

can i just add one that I really love

"Success is never permanent; failure is never fatal. The only thing that really counts is to never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill



ok maybe two!


"THE WORLD STANDS ASIDE AND MAKES ROOM FOR THE PERSON WHO KNOWS WHERE HE IS GOING AND IS ON HIS WAY." Napoleon Hill Foundation



or maybe three!


"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever" L. Armstrong

Thanks for this, great quotes to start my day. I like this one:

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

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison

Like this a lot If only I knew before I have given up What a regret! lol

Amazing quotes.....Very motivational!

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

I agree on this But how can we be so sure that we are on the right direction?

Fantastic ! Thanks for sharing....

Here's one from Billy Graham-

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

Pretty awesome quotes, thanks jared.

Wow!

Thank you for sharing. I think perseverance could possibly be the number one prerequisite for success.

Just great to start my day. You gave me the fighting spirit and the energy to work.

great words ! very inspiring for all hard-workers .

Nice quotes, very inspiring. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
I encourage myself with these word, then, deride myself use same one, funny?

These are great! Thanks! I like to keep a list of things to share on Facebook and these type of quotes are always welcomed and appreciated by me and my peeps!

This one soooo much! The mistake of my life is quiting before even achieving what I could :/

"Success comes before Work only in the dictionary"

That which does not kill you makes you stronger,

this aint tennis lol.

All good stuff! One I've recently discovered and that has been very motivational for me is...

"The word can't is NOT in the dictionary!"

Thanks for sharing, Perseverance is that crucial to everyone success!

This is an awesome video to watch!


Cheers,
Eric

When people say winners never quit, it really means on your ultimate goal, whether it is financial freedom, time freedom or anything you really want in life

Life is up and down up and down up and down and you have to stick with it. You deserve it don't let yourself down.

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first." - the great RWE

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success."
- Thomas J. Watson

Love the quotes! I hope everyone realizes that they just should not give up. Everyone has failures before the success...but how many quit right before the breakthrough...

Thank you so much for these quotes.

Thanks for sharing. It motivated me.

Failure is no match for persistence.

Yes it is true about music being inspirational as well as some of these quotes exist in songs. Thanks for posting these words of wisdom.

My Fav Fall seven times, stand up eight
Never Never Give Up

Don't give up your experiences!!!!!!!!

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Benjamin Franklin

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
William Wordsworth

It is good to learn what to avoid by studying the misfortunes of others.
Publius Syrius

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.
Hosea Ballou

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take firm root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He knows the water best who has waded through it.
Danish Proverb

If you would know the road ahead, ask someone who has traveled it.
Chinese Proverb

Experience is by industry achieved
And perfected by the swift course of time.
William Shakespeare

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who come last enter with advantage.— They are born to the wealth of antiquity.— The materials for judging are prepared, and the foundations of knowledge are laid to their hands.—Besides, if the point was tried by antiquity, antiquity would lose it, for the present age is really the oldest, and has the largest experience to plead.
Collier

All experience is an arch to build upon.
Henry Brook Adams

Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate.
William Shakespeare

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
Wendell Phillips

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.
John S. Hart

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.
Thomas à Kempis

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendall Holmes

Experience is not what happens to a man: it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Lenoardo da Vinci

Those quotes that you have shared could really make an individual have the willpower to keep on going on and never quit. Here's for me "If it worth trying, then it is worth trying a hundred times - anonymous"

Indeed it is tough to hang on when you find nothing is working, some thing happened quite a few times with me. There were times when I had given up too soon and then there have been times when I stoically remained rock solid, did not budge and reap the riches.

My favorite from the list are:
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein


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


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

I just posted this top my facebook wall..
When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
- Author Unknown

My favorite!

Amazing quotes! Success doesnt come to you, you go to it

We all need a little motivation every now and then

Pretty good share. Thanks for sharing.

Very inspiring quotes, Thanks for sharing those words. It did helped me out for my goals. Thanks!

Thanks it is very great to know about it and I have bookmarked it and use it for my marketing purpose and in social networks..

This is one of the reasons I love internet marketing, the inspiration and growth I have received is awsome. Thanks for sharing!

awesome list of quotes

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
way to go winnie...

everyone pin those quotes on your fridge!

Great quotes I will include this on my collection )

Great quotes ... I appreciate Churchill's humor. If you are going through hell, keep going. Considering the alternative...very good advice!!!

GREAT quotes! Thanks!

Great quotes! Thanks!

Great collections, it gives such and inspiration and encouragement.

Absolutely Awesome & great motivation Jared. And thanks for letting us know the source too!

nice share

really amezing

I've read most of this quotes. Thanks for sharing.

If we could only stop sharing quotes and start living it the world might be a better place to live.

Great thread you have started Jared.

Two that come to my mind are in the same vein, but are very relevant to the IM community

"All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do" ~ Author Unknown

"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind" ~ Author Unknown

Thanks for posting.. It make be feel good when I read such threads..

Here goes a saying which I was inspired by:

"Everything is Difficult before It is Easy"

I have actually framed the quote I live by everyday, its hanging on the wall so it is the first thing I see when I wake up.

" We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
- Siddhārtha Gautama

These are really great. Thanks for sharing.

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
I cant stop laughing with the above one...really nice one

This is one of my favorite quotes.. I think it's a very common problem in the IM niche.. We need to focus on only one topic, take action and then reach the goal.

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one of my favorite

I think i'll have to add these to my collection... good quotes come in handy for so many reasons

ha dude this post is awesome....just read it today a few years after you started thread.

I love this one:
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

So true and applies to so many things in life, business, relationships, work etc...love it.

YOU DON'T FAIL IF YOU DON'T GIVE UP. - DR. HOUSE
- eBe Wisdom -

very amazing quotes, i'll keep it on my note pad
thanks for share

Alright, I'll keep trying....until.

'Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.' - Thomas A. Edison

Let me tweet about this quote.

Thank you.
Very nice post

Thanks, these post are awesome. Nice post.

I REALLY like this one from your list: "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
- Walter Elliott
Just the word 'perseverance' sounds like you start grinding and keep on grinding with no break until it gets done, but it is reality that it is many short races one after another, just because of the nature of our lives as human beings. Thanks for that.

WOW! Great quotes. Thank you for sharing! It is very inspirational!

I like the Winston Churchill one the Best but all are brilliant! Thank you so much for these.

I love this one:

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

very nice..........Thank you for sharing

If you GIVE to LIVE, you will LIVE to GIVE.
"For it is in giving that we receive."
~St. Francis of Assisi

Thanks for this inspiring quotes!...

Thomas Edison did not fail 10,000 times trying to invent the incandescent light bulb. He successfully found 10,000 ways it would not work

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

This is cool

Great quotes. Appreciate your sharing them. Regards

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

Very inspiring, i love this quote

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Hey Jared!

Good post hehehehe My fav. is: Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

I fall more than 7 times every hour hahahahahaha but I'm still standing up 1 more.

Regards!

thanks for sharing these great quotes. My favourite is:

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

I'm never down. I'm either up or getting up. - Rick Martin

very inspirational.

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it."
― Vince Lombardi

"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it."
― Jim Rohn

"You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals."
― Steve Maraboli

"Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go... you are a part of everything."
― Steve Maraboli

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
― Warren Buffett

"Today is the only day in which we have any power."
― Steve Maraboli

"The world's greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."
― Roopleen

"Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress."
― Steve Maraboli

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

Jared,

I've had this philosophy since I was young....

It has served me very well.

All The Best,

Rich Beck BCIP, MCSD, MCIS

Good post. My vote goes for @cg (Napoleon Hill).

love quotes about perseverance. thanks you all

Great quotes! Thanks!

This one is one I live by. I think we are at our best when our backs are against the wall. Almost all significant advances are almost always preceded by a fall of some sort, and that's what this quote speaks to.

I really think there a lot of special people on this forum because so many on here, to one degree or another are progressive thinkers, are innovative, and are the "take no prisoners" type of people that embody a lot of these quotes. And, many of us have been through a lot, but keep on reaching for dreams.

"To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you. I will love you, again."


― Ellen Bass

I would never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I'd be like, HEY! You get your b*tch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie!
Eric Cartman

I am currently reading a book called The Tools by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels. One of the tools they describe is called the reversal of desire and it is designed to use a higher force they call the force of forward motion. If you get a chance to read it, I recommend it as this tool is all about turning pain into possibilities.

I love these quotes, they are really inspirational. You listed my personal favorite quote and that is

Even in the toughest times when we don't think we can make it anymore, we just need to hang on and keep going in order to get through it. Giving up means staying in that hell hole so we really need to keep going until we pass the storm.

Truly a faith inspiring and confidence building post. Blessings to you!

Fall 7 times get up 8 is my favorite. Makes me think of batman. Why do we fall bruce?

All great quotes. Thank you for sharing!

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -Carol Burnett
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. -Sam Levenson

I just have to add this one:

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Just do it.'

or is that two quotes