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Quotes About Perseverance

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
~ Abraham H. Maslow
Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.
~ Jimmy Cliff
The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
~ Bill Courtney
Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.
~ The Weeknd
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
~ John Diamond
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
~ Horace Bushnell
It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
~ Frank Warren
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.
~ Chris Gardner
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
~ Joey Lauren Adams
I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
~ Sidney Poitier
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.
~ Frank Shorter
Keep your head up, keep your heart strong.
~ Shalane Flanagan
Sweet are the uses of adversity
~ William Shakespeare
It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
~ S.A. Bodeen
Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.
~ Gil Hodges
Relentless Forward Motion!
~ Tom Riley
You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.
~ Rocky Colavito
You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
~ John C. Maxwell
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
~ Steve Martin
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
~ Anne Frank
The longest hill must end in a valley.
~ Henry Beeching
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
~ Art Spander