Quote Raid: Strength & Perseverance

My Dad was asked about his strengths the other day and he said one of them was tenacity. Of course, that is a strength of mine too but I have been calling it perseverance lately. It is a synonym. I went on a quote raid today to remind me of how much tenacity and perseverance have worked for me. I found so many great perseverance quotes I didn’t even look up tenacity yet. Maybe tomorrow, haha.

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

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

William Cobbett

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Lao Tzu

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

John Quincy Adams

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Anthony Hamilton

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo