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Quotations about Perseverance
Don't be ashamed to fail. Be too proud to cease trying. ~Minna Thomas Antrim (1861–1950), Don'ts for Girls, 1902
[K]eep it going! You never can do anything by spasmodic efforts. It's the eternal hammering that does the thing. ~Edward Mott Woolley, "Adventures in Business: The Merchant Who Needed a Press Agent," in The Saturday Evening Post, 1912 September 21st
You have failed, and who has not? You have risen, and, lifting the blind, have greeted the sun and said, "This will be my best day, this day will count." ~Charles F. Raymond, "The Call to the Young," Just Be Glad, 1907
Perseverance is everything. ~Yoruba proverb
Sometimes you feel like giving up, but then you look at other people who have given up, and the results aren't that good. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Nothing gives a man more confidence in himself than the habit of perseverance. ~Thomas Clark Henley, A Handful of Paper Shavings, 1861
Self-confidence is no doubt useful, but it would be more correct to say that what was wanted was firstly perseverance, secondly perseverance, and thirdly perseverance. ~John Lubbock, "Industry," The Use of Life, 1894
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Marie Register Weedn (1929–2015), Flavia and the Dream Maker, 1988, https://flavia.gallery
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Talent made a poor Appearance
Until he married Perseverance.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Persistence," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
This is the lesson: 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. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~Winston Churchill, speech, 1941
The lesson of history is that most advances are by half-step, most progress by partial success. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com, 2019
While I might find pleasure in your approval, your disapproval will not deter me. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912
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. ~Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893 [Vivie
...the world burns a person down many times, and you shake off the ashes and you walk into the next fire knowing that the fire never gets to the core of you. ~The Great, "Once Upon a Time," 2023, written by Tony McNamara, Ava Pickett, Constance Cheng, and Maisie Parker, based on the 2008 play by Tony McNamara
And we, too supple for life's storms to break... ~Arthur Davison Ficke, Sonnets of a Portrait-Painter, 1914
...perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
~William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, c.1601 [III, 3, Ulysses]
You may not hit a home run — but that's no reason to stop swinging. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, lumpenbangenpiano.com
Experiment with Many Things, until
Through learning what Won't Work, you find what Will.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Indomitability," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
Never stop pedaling to power your dreams. ~Terri Guillemets
Never get discouraged at difficulties... When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you
O snail,
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
~Issa (1763–1828), translated by R. H. Blyth, 1947
Strength will ease a can't to a can. ~Kak Sri, @kaksri, September 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, @quotegarden
when a rose stands alone,
thriving where no others thrive,
a rare bouquet of one
still strong, still alive....
and I smile...
~Hazelmarie "Mattie" Elliott, "A Breath of Heaven"
Nature remembers every injury but forgives by going on. ~Terri Guillemets, "Hatchets, Shoetread, Storms, & Disdain," 2007
One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French proverb
Pull yourself together and use what you have. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, betsygarmon.com
Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~Oliver Goldsmith, c.1760 [quoteinvestigator.com]
You can move a lot of water with a thimble. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time. ~Lady Aberdeen, 1913 [quoteinvestigator.com]
Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way! ~Mehmet Murat İldan, mehmetmuratildanresmiwebsitesi.wordpress.com
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~Antonio Porchia (1886–1968), Voces, 1943–1966, translated from the Spanish by W.S. Merwin (1927–2019), c.1968
Persistence is a virtue — as long as you don't carry it too far. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, lumpenbangenpiano.com
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