40+ Motivational Phrases and Quotes for Perseverance

Perseverance is more than just pushing through, it’s a mindset, a habit and often the secret behind every success story.

That’s why people turn to perseverance quotes for a spark of motivation whether they’re facing personal struggles, writing a speech or seeking inspiration. 

These quotes are shared on social media, printed in greeting cards and pinned on classroom walls. They’re daily affirmations, fuel for athletes and words of encouragement in tough times. 

If you’re here to reflect, share, teach or simply boost your own spirit this collection of perseverance quotes is here for you.

• "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." Henry Ford
  
  

• "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." Samuel Johnson
  
  

• "Perseverance, the secret of all triumphs." Victor Hugo
  
  

• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Albert Einstein
  
  

• "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." Walter Elliot
  
  

• "A winner is just a loser who tried one more time." George M. Moore Jr.
  
  

• "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." Julie Andrews
  
  

• "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." Robert Collier
  
  

• "If you are going through hell, keep going."  Winston S. Churchill
  
  

• "Fall seven times and stand up eight." Japanese Proverb

• "Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage—those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you." Michael Phelps
  
  

• "Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." Calvin Coolidge
  
  

• "One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday." Angela Duckworth
  
  

• "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." Napoleon Hill
  
  

• "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
  
  

• "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." John Quincy Adams
  
  

• "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." Benjamin Disraeli
  
  

• "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." William Ernest Henley
  
  

• "You can't give up your passion if things don't work right away... It's those folks who stay at it, those who do the long, hard, committed work of change that gradually push this country in the right direction." Barack Obama
  
  

• "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

• "Victory belongs to the most persevering." Napoleon Bonaparte
  
  

• "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it." Charles F. Kettering
  
  

• "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves." Marie Curie
  
  

• "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." Molière
  
  

• "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." Seneca
  
  

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius
  
  

• "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin
  
  

• "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." Buddha
  
  

• "He conquers who endures." Persius
  
  

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill

• "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." John Quincy Adams
  
  

• "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." Napoleon Hill
  
  

• "Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all, love." Swami Vivekananda
  
  

• "Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else." Émile Coué
  
  

• "Patience brings perseverance." Sunday Adelaja
  
  

• "If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that." Swami Vivekananda
  
  

• "Patience is the companion of wisdom." Saint Augustine
  
  

• "Patience and perseverance overcome mountains." William Penn
  
  

• "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
  

• "Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it's how we behave while we're waiting." Joyce Meyer