Push Through Quotes are powerful reminders that progress often happens when things seem most difficult. These quotes speak to those moments when motivation wanes, energy flags, and giving up seems easier than pressing on. They encourage you to keep going, even if the steps are small and the journey feels overwhelming.
When challenges test your patience and strength, push-through quotes shift your mindset from surrender to perseverance. Let these words remind you that resilience is built not by giving up, but by consistently trying, and that every obstacle you overcome makes you stronger.
1. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
2. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
3. “Act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Dorothea Brande
4. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
5. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliot
6. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
7. “Endurance is patience concentrated.” – Thomas Carlyle
8. “With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” – Thomas Fowell Buxton
9. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
10. “The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength, not lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
11. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
12. “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli
13. “Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
14. “Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil
15. “Through perseverance, the snail reached the ark.” – Charles Spurgeon
16. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
17. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J. K. Rowling
18. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joseph P. Kennedy
19. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
21. “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” – Dolly Parton
22. “The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C. C. Scott
23. “Through endurance we conquer.” – Ernest Shackleton
24. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” – Søren Kierkegaard
25. “Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.” – Unknown
26. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
27. “Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” – John Ruskin
28. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” – Confucius
29. “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
30. “Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” – Calvin Coolidge
31. “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” – William Arthur Ward
32. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
33. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.” – Zig Ziglar
35. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
36. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
37. “Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” – Julie Andrews
38. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
39. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
40. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère
41. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers
42. “The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
43. “Nothing great is created suddenly.” – Epictetus
44.”Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going anyway.” – Unknown
45. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
46. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan
47. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African Proverb
48. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
49. “Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.” – Virgil
50. “The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
51. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
52. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
53. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
54. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill
55. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
56. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam
57. “The gem cannot be polished without friction.” – Chinese Proverb
58. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
59. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
60. “Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” – Edward R. Murrow
61. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley
62. “Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo
63. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
64. “Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
65. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
66. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
67. “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
68. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” – Stephen King
69. “Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
70. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C. S. Lewis
71. “Little by little, one travels far.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
72. “Perseverance is the act of true strength.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.” – Unknown
74. “Endure hardship as discipline.” – Hebrews 12:11 (Bible)
75. “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” – Seneca
76. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” – Alexander Pope
77. “The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell.” – Kahlil Gibran
78. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
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