As you reflect upon your life, how many times have you fallen down? Did you pick yourself up each time and say that you'll try again? I certainly need reminders to persist and this list of quotes will serve as wake-up calls during those days when I'm faltering along my journey.

Enjoy these persistence quotes and may they rekindle your spark to go after your heart's desires!

Hang on tight to your goals, dreams and let's keep on going!

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent. -- Marilyn vos Savant

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. -- Brian Tracy

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. -- Dan Rather

Effort is a commitment to seeing a task through to the end, not just until you get tired of it. -- Howard Cate

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. -- Ella Fitzgerald

Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can. -- Author Unknown

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. -- Christopher Reeve

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. -- Flavia Weedn

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence. -- Author Unknown

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. -- Dr. Joyce Brothers

It is by tiny steps that we ascend the stars. -- Jack Leedstrom

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -- W. Somerset Maugham

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. -- Dale Carnegie

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. -- Agnes De Mille

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up

somebody. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. -- Author Unknown

The human will, that

force unseen, The

offspring of a deathless

soul, Can hew a wall to

any goal, Through walls

of granite intervene.

-- James Allen

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