Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
Apuleius
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"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Apuleius
"The capacity to endure is the foundation of all perseverance."
Diogenes Laërtius
"The struggle itself is the substance of life, not its obstacle."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"To endure is the beginning of all things."
Juvenal
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"Constant practice is the price of perfection."
Juvenal
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"The small becomes great through perseverance."
Juvenal
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"Leave no stone unturned."
Plutarch
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"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence."
Plutarch
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"In the pursuit of knowledge, there are no shortcuts."
Hypatia
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"Every obstacle to learning is an obstacle to human progress."
Hypatia
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"To learn is to grow; to stop learning is to slowly perish."
Hypatia
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"To persist in the face of doubt is the essence of true courage."
Apuleius
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"To persist when all seems lost is to touch the divine."
Apuleius
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"The path to enlightenment is paved with small acts of perseverance."
Petronius
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"Perseverance is the forge in which weak resolve becomes unbreakable will."
Porphyry
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"Perseverance is not the absence of doubt, but the decision to act despite it."
Porphyry
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"A mountain is not an obstacle to the determined man; it is a lesson in perseverance."
Strabo
"When fortune turns against you, that is when virtue is most needed."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Perseverance is not a virtue of the strong but of those who refuse to quit."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"The die cast by fate admits of no appeal."
Juvenal
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"Perseverance is the victory of the soul."
Juvenal
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"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
Plutarch
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"The discipline of suffering often educates to virtue those who are subjected to it."
Plutarch
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"As the old saw says, all things are hard before they are easy."
Plutarch
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"The sweetest victory is the one won over oneself."
Apuleius
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"Perseverance is the bridge between desire and achievement."
Apuleius
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"Perseverance in learning yields the greatest rewards."
Strabo
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"Perseverance is the art of failing one day longer than others."
Petronius
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"Perseverance is the conversion of will into achievement."
Petronius