Quotes About Perseverance and Never Giving Up

1. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'

--Mary Anne Radmacher, American author and artist

2. Fall seven times and stand up eight.

--Japanese Proverb

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

--Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist and developer of the theory of relativity

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

--Thomas Edison (1874-1931), inventor of the light bulb

5. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

--Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of Ford Motor Company

6. A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

--B.F. Skinner (1904-1990), American psychologist

7. Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?'

--Richard Carlson, American psychotherapist and author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

8. What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you'd be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

--Karen Salmansohn, best-selling self-help author

9. As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.

--Dr. Steve Maraboli, speaker and author

10. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

--Robert Collier (1885-1950), American self-help author

11. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

--Confucius (551-479 BC), philosopher

12. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American author

13. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

--Newt Gingrich (1943- ), American politician, historian, and author

14. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

--Julie Andrews (1935- ), English film and stage actress

15. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British politician and writer

16. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

--William Feather (1889-1981), American author

17. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

--Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), world-renowned author and speaker

18. Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

--Leigh Mitchell Hodges (1876-1954), journalist and poet

19. We will either find a way or make one.

--Hannibal (247-182 BC), Carthaginian General

20. It always seems impossible until it's done.

--Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African anti-apartheid leader

21. The best way out is always through.

--Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet

22. A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

--George M. Moore Jr. (1862-1940), Member U.S. House of Representatives

23. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

--Bill Cosby (1937- ), comedian and actor

24. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

--George Edward Woodberry (1855-1930), American poet

25. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American abolitionist and author