49 Quotes About Hope and Perseverance

Having hope in life will bring you new visions to the future and goals you wish to achieve. These quotes about hope and perseverance capture what it takes to achieve the biggest of dreams.

“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.”

“A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.”

“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”

“Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.”

“Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.”

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”

“Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering I will try again tomorrow.”

“Everything that I’ve ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.”

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”

“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.”

“I don’t know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder… I think it’s just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.”

“I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory.”

“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.”

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

“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.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

“It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. ”

“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.”

“Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

“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.”

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. ”

“No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.”

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”

“Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn’t measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.”

“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

“The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.”

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.”

“The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don’t give up. I don’t beat myself up about negative things.”

“There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.”

“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.”

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”

“We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.”

“What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire – the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.”

“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.”

“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.”

“You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.”

“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.”

“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.”

Having perseverance in life will give you the power to not give up and will encourage you to continue moving forward.