290 quotes
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
Comedian · American · 1889 – 1945
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
Christy Turlington
Model · American · b. 1969
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
Scott Hamilton
Athlete · b. 1958
Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
John Philip Sousa
Musician · American · 1854 – 1932
You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
Janet Jackson
Musician · American · b. 1966
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
Mike Tyson
Athlete · American · b. 1966
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
Lynn Davies
Athlete · British · b. 1942
A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
Jayne Mansfield
Actress · American · 1932 – 1967
I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.
Debbie Gibson
Musician · American · b. 1970
Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
Andrea Bocelli
Musician · Italian · b. 1958
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
Ben Stiller
Comedian · American · b. 1965
Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen, Sr.
Coach · American · 1918 – 1990
Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.
Jennifer Saunders
Comedian · British · b. 1958
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
Bill Rodgers
Athlete · American · b. 1947
I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.
David Rose
Musician · American · 1910 – 1990
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
Actress · English · b. 1935
The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
Ian Botham
Athlete · English · b. 1955
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Stephen Baker
Athlete · American · b. 1964
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
David Steinberg
Comedian · Canadian · b. 1942
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Peggy Fleming
Athlete · American · b. 1948
It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.
Miranda Richardson
Actress · English · b. 1958
Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.
Don Cooper
Athlete · American · b. 1957
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Todd Rundgren
Musician · American · b. 1948
Persevere and get it done.
The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question.
William Banting
Celebrity · English
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.
Phylicia Rashad
Actress · American · b. 1948
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
Woody Hayes
Coach · American · 1913 – 1987
Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.
Kenelm Digby
Celebrity · English · 1603 – 1665
Use your brain, not your endurance.
Peter Thomson
Athlete · Australian · b. 1929
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Statesman · Roman
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Plato
Philosopher · Greek
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher · German · 1844 – 1900
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader · French · 1769 – 1821
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill
Writer · American · 1883 – 1970
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
Writer · American · 1859 – 1915
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Thomas Aquinas
Theologian · Italian
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt
Critic · English · 1778 – 1830
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
Dramatist · Irish · 1856 – 1950
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Politician · American · b. 1943
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
James Russell Lowell
Poet · American · 1819 – 1891
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Writer · American · 1888 – 1955
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher
Clergyman · American · 1813 – 1887
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill
Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher · Swiss · 1712 – 1778
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Clergyman · American · 1878 – 1969