Perseverance Quotes

Every great achievement required someone who refused to quit. These quotes tell that story.

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"There is nothing in the world that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is meaning in one's life."
Victor Frankl
V
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
Victor Frankl
V
"The will to meaning can be blocked, but it cannot be destroyed; it can only be redirected."
Victor Frankl
B
"The struggle itself is where we discover our strength."
Bruno Bettelheim
B
"Suffering becomes meaningful only when we can transform it into growth."
Bruno Bettelheim
D
"To be truly adult is to recognize that the world will not meet all our needs, and that is acceptable."
D.W. Winnicott
W
"Stories endure because they encode survival strategies and wisdom."
Wendy Doniger
W
"Stories carry memory forward; they are how we survive."
Wendy Doniger
A
"Growth requires both comfort and challenge in equal measure."
Anna Freud
D
"Resilience is not the absence of distress, but the ability to recover."
D.W. Winnicott
B
"The struggle itself becomes the source of meaning in our lives."
Bruno Bettelheim
B
"The struggle against adversity is what gives life its shape and meaning."
Bruno Bettelheim
V
"When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept the suffering as his task."
Victor Frankl
V
"As the experiences of camp life show, man does not have immunity against spiritual failure."
Victor Frankl
V
"Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under the most miserable circumstances, decide that his existence will not have been in vain."
Victor Frankl
V
"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
Victor Frankl
V
"Suffering is only meaningless when you cannot find meaning in it."
Victor Frankl
V
"Man can endure almost anything if he has a why."
Victor Frankl
V
"Suffering is removed not by avoiding it, but by finding significance in it."
Victor Frankl
P
"Perseverance is not stubbornness but faithful persistence in what matters."
Pierre Clastres
P
"Perseverance without flexibility is merely stubbornness in motion."
Pierre Clastres
V
"Liminality teaches us that all social arrangements are provisional, that change is always possible."
Victor Turner
P
"The primitive world knew that equality must be defended daily."
Pierre Clastres
G
"Persistence is the path through obstacles"
Gregory Bateson
A
"Perseverance in scholarship yields understanding."
Alfred Kroeber
A
"Perseverance separates the scholar from the dilettante."
Alfred Kroeber
G
"Perseverance is fidelity to the pattern you recognize as true."
Gregory Bateson
M
"It may be necessary to face defeat to know how to fight."
Margaret Mead
O
"Perseverance is the virtue of the strong."
Oswald Spengler
O
"Perseverance overcomes all obstacles."
Oswald Spengler