100 Perseverance Quotes That Reflect Business Tenacity

When things get tough, perseverance is what carries you forward.

These quotes are all about pushing through resistance, staying consistent, and believing in what you’re building, even when results take time.

If you need a reminder that your efforts matter, this collection delivers.

Top Perseverance Quotes

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ~ Walter Elliot

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. ~ Julie Andrews

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~ Newt Gingrich

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. ~ Vince Lombardi

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ~ Albert Einstein

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~ John Quincy Adams

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. ~ Tommy Lasorda

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ Confucius

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. ~ Tom Hopkins

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~ Japanese Proverb

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying. ~ John C. Maxwell

Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs. ~ Victor Hugo

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. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ~ James A. Michener

Grit and Determination Quotes

Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint. ~ Angela Duckworth

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. ~ Angela Duckworth

Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. ~ Angela Duckworth

Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality. ~ Travis Bradberry

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. ~ Denis Waitley

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ~ Channing Pollock

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ~ Anthony Robbins

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ~ Vince Lombardi

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ~ Mario Andretti

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. ~ Vince Lombardi

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. ~ Pelé

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ~ Colin Powell

The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ~ Thomas Edison

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

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. ~ Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up. ~ Winston Churchill

It always seems impossible until it’s done. ~ Nelson Mandela

Energy and persistence conquer all things. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Resilience Quotes

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. ~ Robert Jordan

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ~ J.K. Rowling

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient. ~ Steve Maraboli

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance. ~ Jodi Picoult

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up. ~ Mary Holloway

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Nelson Mandela

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius

It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive. ~ Jean Chatzky

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. ~ Jamais Cascio

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems. ~ Gever Tulley

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear. ~ Greg Kincaid

Resilience is the ability to attack while running away. ~ Wes Fessler

Resilience is the capacity of a system, enterprise, or person to maintain its core purpose and integrity in the face of dramatically changed circumstances. ~ Andrew Zolli

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. ~ Oxford Dictionary

Resilience is the ability to work with adversity in such a way that one comes through it unharmed or even better for the experience. ~ James Stockdale

Resilience is the ability to face the darkness, acknowledge it, and move through to the light. ~ Madeleine L’Engle

Overcoming Adversity Quotes

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ~ William Arthur Ward

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ~ Chinese Proverb

Adversity is the first path to truth. ~ Lord Byron

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ~ Lee Iacocca

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. ~ Molière

Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~ Albert Einstein

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~ Arthur Golden

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~ Horace

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ~ Horace

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ~ John Wooden

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~ Josh Billings

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves. ~ Edmund Burke

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~ Victor Hugo

Adversity is the first path to truth. ~ Lord Byron

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive is not worth the price we paid. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~ Horace

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. ~ Henry Fielding

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ~ John Wooden

Endurance Quotes

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. ~ William Barclay

Endurance is patience concentrated. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. ~ Buddha

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ~ John Ruskin

Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts. ~ James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the ability to weather a trial without resorting to unhealthy coping mechanisms. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to stand pain, discomfort and fatigue, and keep going. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the foundation of all success. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the act of enduring; the power of enduring; the state or quality of being able to endure hardship, stress, or adversity. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to withstand hardship or stress. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to continue despite fatigue or hardship. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the capacity to continue a physical or mental task over a period of time. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to withstand hardship or adversity; especially: the ability to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to withstand an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to withstand hardship or stress. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to continue despite fatigue or hardship. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the capacity to continue a physical or mental task over a period of time. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to withstand hardship or adversity; especially: the ability to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity. ~ Anonymous

Endurance is the ability to withstand an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way. ~ Anonymous