At the age of 22, Walt Disney was fired from a Missouri newspaper for “not being creative enough.”

J.K. Rowlings’ first novel was rejected by twelve publishers.

In his first three years in the automobile business Henry Ford went bankrupt twice.

Michelangelo endured seven years lying on his back on a scaffold to paint the Sistine Chapel

Colonel Harland Sanders was turned down 1009 times before his fried chicken was accepted.

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

Oprah was fired from her job as a reporter because the producer said she was “unfit for TV news”.

What do all of them have in common? Perseverance.

These quotes will inspire you to step up your perseverance in order to achieve your goals?

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

Charles Spurgeon

“If you’re running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you’re trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you’ll find that no job is all that intimidating.”

Charles Swindoll

“Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.”

Rick Warren

“Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important than ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.”

T.D. Jakes

“Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.”

William Wilberforce

“Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we’re not going to quit. When we’re bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: “I’ll never give up! God’s on my side. He loves me, and He’s helping me! I’m going to make it!”

Joyce Meyer

“We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.”

R.C Sproul 

“Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.”

James 1:12

“And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.”

2 Thessalonians 3:13

“So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord’s service is ever useless.”

1 Corinthians 15:58 

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”

Walter Elliott

“Let me tell you the secret that led me to achieve my goal. My strength lies in my tenacity.”

Louis Pasteur

“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”

George Mason

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

Scott Fitzgerald

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

Albert Einstein

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

Nelson Mandella

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”

James Michener

“Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, study, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” 

Pele

“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.”

Romans 5:3-4 

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

Hebrews 12:1

“For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.”

Hebrews 10:36 

“Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.”

Ephesians 6:18 

“If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us.”

2 Timothy 2:12 

“Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.”

Romans 12:12 

“Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.”

Revelation 3:10 

“For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.”

James 1:3 

“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” 

Philippians 3:14 

“God will direct you, you will be able to endure.”

Exodus 18:23

“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”

Galatians 6:9 

“We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.”

2 Corinthians 4:8  

“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”

Philippians 4:13

“Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually.”

1 Chronicles 16:11 

“He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.”

Isaiah 40:29 

“I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.”

Psalm 16:8 

“But the one who endures to the end will be saved.”

Matthew 24:13  

“Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience.”

Colossians 1:11-12

“We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized.”

Hebrews 6:11

“Stand firm, and you will win life.”

Luke 21:19

“We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.”

R.C Sproul 

“And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.”

2 Thessalonians 3:13

“So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord’s service is ever useless.”

1 Corinthians 15:58 

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”

Walter Elliott

“Let me tell you the secret that led me to achieve my goal. My strength lies in my tenacity.”

Louis Pasteur

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

Japanese Proverb

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

Thomas Edison 

“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.”

Steve Maraboli 

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

Robert Collier 

“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 

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

William Feather 

“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”

George M. Moore Jr. 

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe 

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

Confucius 

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”

James A. Michener 

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”

Walter Elliot 

“I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.”

Marie Curie 

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

 Winston Churchill 

“Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes but they keep moving.”

Conrad Hilton

“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, rise up against the odds.

Jesse Jackson 

“Most of the important things in life have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

Dale Carnegie

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

Elbert Hubbard

“Winners never quit; quitters never win.”

Vince Lombardi

“So, how do you know when you have persevered enough? Easy. When you achieve what you set out to do, it is enough.”

Glenn Van Ekeren

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