“The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.”

“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.”

“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.”

“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

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

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.”

“You’ve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It’s called perseverance.”

“Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.”

“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

“Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”