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
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary
to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can
still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
Nothing in the 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. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much
as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it
was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob A. Riis
Its not that Im so smart, its just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
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
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But its not. It
takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The
real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you wont. Its whether you let it
harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to
persevere.
Barack Obama
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you
couldnt hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for thats just the place and time that
the tidell turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the
circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere
behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
Geraldine Brooks
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to
diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain
failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you cant fly then run, if you cant run then walk, if you cant walk then crawl, but
whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill
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
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. Thats real glory. Thats
the essence of it.
Vince Lombardi
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the
price and it is yours.
Orison Swett Marden
Courage doesnt always roar, sometimes its the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering I
will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
You arent going to find anybody thats going to be successful without making a sacrifice and
without perseverance.
Lou Holtz
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
Jim Watkins
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of
the latter grows irresistible with time.
Sophie Swetchine
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
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. I will drink the
ocean, says the persevering soul; at my will mountains will crumble up. Have that sort of
energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.

Swami Vivekananda