Perseverance Quotes

Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright. (Troilus and Cressida)

Keep trying. It’s only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Rome wasn’t burned in a day.

The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard.

Through perserverence many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickax, or of one […]