Perseverance captions and quotes – they are your fuel for pushing through! They’re reminders that tough times don’t last, but resilient spirits do.
These phrases will keep you going, showing the strength in never giving up, even when the going gets tough.
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1. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.” — Kobe Bryant
2. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” — Rumi
3. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews
4. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein
5. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” — Tommy Lasorda
6. “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” — Jesse Owens
7. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” — Mary Anne Radmacher
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8. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve Jobs
9. “Perseverance, the secret of all triumphs.” — Victor Hugo
10. “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou
12. “Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.” — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
13. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
14. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
15. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
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16. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” — Newt Gingrich
17. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” — Theodore Roosevelt
18. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” — Walter Elliot
19. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
20. “In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
21. “Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” — Pauline Kael
22. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie
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23. “Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating.” — Robert Kiyosaki
24. “It’s hard to beat a person who doesn’t give up.” — Babe Ruth
25. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” — Michael Jordan
26. “Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.” — Anthony Bourdain
27. “Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus & hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.” — Elbert Hubbard
28. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” — Muhammad Ali
29. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” — Jeffrey Gitomer
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30. “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” — Malcolm Forbes
31. “The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.” — Yngwie Malmsteen
32. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” — John Quincy Adams
33. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” — Babe Ruth
34. “My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” — Michael Jordan
35. “Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.” — Orison Swett Marden
36. “The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” — Kalpana Chawla
37. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison
38. “Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.” — Tony Hsieh
39. “I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” — John D. Rockefeller
40. “I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.” — Og Mandino
41. “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” — Isak Dinesen
42. “No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.” — Ramana Maharshi
43. “Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.” — Gillian Anderson
44. “Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.” — Elbert Hubbard
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45. “Nothing in this 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.” — Calvin Coolidge
46. “Without a struggle there can be no progress.” — Frederick Douglass
47. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” — Louis Pasteur
48. “Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.” — Michael Chiesa
49. “We do not develop anything with one giant step. No matter who you are, or what you do, each one of us had had to take a lot of individual steps to accomplish a task, a job, a career, or even a hobby.” — Catherine Pulsifer
50. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
51. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.” — Helen Keller
52. “The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” — Thomas Henry Huxley
53. “The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.” — John C. Maxwell
54. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
55. “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” — Thomas Carlyle
56. “Nobody starts off as a hero, that does not happen even in films. It is passion, hard work, and perseverance that makes the difference. Dream big, follow your passion and work hard towards fulfilling it and it will pay well.” — Rakshit Shetty
57. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” — Gail Devers
58. “Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.” — Paul Coffey
59. “You must tell yourself, “No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.”” — Les Brown
60. “One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” — Jack Penn
61. “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson
62. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” — Pele
63. “It’s always too soon to quit!” — Norman Vincent Peale
64. “Whether you’re shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.” — David Blaine
65. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
66. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
67. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
68. “Perseverance is the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up – to push on in spite of pain, setbacks, and losses.” — J.C. Watts Jr
69. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” — Jim Watkins
70. “Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failures along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” — Barack Obama
71. “You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.” — Lou Holtz
72. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher
73. “I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” — Marie Curie
74. “A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.” — Serena Williams
75. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” — James A. Michener
76. “Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.” — Lao Tzu
77. “I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory.” — Anthony Hamilton
78. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” — Lance Armstrong
79. “Perseverance is the steadfast pursuit of an objective despite obstacles, difficulties or discouragement.” — Albert Schweitzer
80. “Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.” — Travis Bradberry
81. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
82. “Personally, I’ve learned about perseverance: when you hear the word ‘No,’ and when you hear rejection, that it’s not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.” — Angela Robinson
83. “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” — Benjamin Disraeli
84. “In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.” — General George S Patton, Jr.
85. “Perseverance is the ability to hold on to a goal long enough to achieve it.” — Andy Grove
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