Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Patience is a bitter plant, but it bears sweet fruit."
Euripides
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"There are times when even life itself is victory enough."
Euripides
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"To persevere is to understand that failure is merely experience in disguise."
Xenophanes
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"Perseverance is not the absence of doubt, but action despite it."
Xenophanes
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"Success comes to those who are persistent in their labors."
Sophocles
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"The man who has conquered his own appetites has won the greatest victory."
Aristophanes
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"The god of victory is wonderful, but to be defeated well is admirable."
Euripides
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"That which is rightly done will be done, even though opposed."
Euripides
E
"The human spirit is capable of enduring far more than we imagine."
Euripides
A
"In moisture and dryness, life finds its eternal struggle and balance."
Anaximander
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"The heart that seeks truth must be prepared for endless depths."
Anaximander
A
"The path of truth is steep, but the view from its heights justifies all struggle."
Anaximander
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"Foolish is the man who despairs in adversity."
Democritus
D
"Choose the best; habit will make them pleasant and easy."
Democritus
A
"Stagnation is death; movement through air is life itself."
Anaximenes
A
"To persevere is to breathe steadily through the storm of life."
Anaximenes
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"The strong are those who persevere"
Empedocles
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"Perseverance is the twin of hope"
Empedocles
S
"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom"
Sophocles
S
"The measure of a man is not in how he rises, but in how quickly he stands again after falling"
Sophocles
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness."
Euripides
E
"The reward of suffering is wisdom."
Euripides
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"Perseverance is the virtue of those who understand that all cycles must complete themselves."
Empedocles
A
"Whosoever plants dates will not harvest them, yet they plant them nonetheless."
Aristophanes
A
"A man may be down but he is never out unless he says so himself."
Aristophanes
A
"What we sow in youth, we reap in old age; plant with care and harvest with gratitude."
Aristophanes
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"Perseverance is the key to any worthwhile achievement."
Frankie Boyle
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"Mistakes are proof that you're trying."
Frankie Boyle
F
"The only true failure is giving up."
Frankie Boyle
A
"Perseverance in observation reveals what impatience conceals."
Anaximander