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Quotes About Persistence

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
~ Joe Biden
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
~ Gustav Mahler
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
~ Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Be so good they can't ignore you.
~ Steve Martin
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
~ Ralph Boston
You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
~ Garth Brooks
I know I will never let myself be complacent in life.
~ Misty Copeland
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.
~ Fabiola Gianotti
I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.
~ Bella Thorne
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
~ Huey Newton
If you quit every time things don't go your way, then you'll be quitting all through your life.
~ Evander Holyfield
I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
~ Alain de Botton
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
~ Orison Swett Marden
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.
~ Urijah Faber
Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
~ Stevie Wonder
Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
~ Peter Guber
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
~ Dave Chappelle
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
~ Arabella Weir
Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
~ Rabindranath Tagore