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Quotes About Perseverance

We never do great things without trying.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.
~ Bobby Nichols
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.
~ Emmet Fox
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
~ Mencius
As is commonly said, 'to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.'
~ Haile Selassie
God gives you the sight, the right, and the might to do great things, but you have to develop the fight!
~ Tim Storey
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.
~ Julia Roberts
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
~ Os Guinness
We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
~ Dick Gregory
Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.
~ Jim Brown
I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.
~ T. D. Jakes
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
~ Boris Spassky
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Great souls endure in silence.
~ Friedrich Schiller
You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
~ Fran Tarkenton
You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.
~ Ryan Lochte
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
~ Mencius
Don't just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
~ James Russell Lowell