Perseverance Quotes

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

28436 quotes

G
"Perseverance is not about pushing through resistance but finding new paths"
Gilles Deleuze
S
"Perseverance becomes pathological when it prevents us from admitting defeat."
Slavoj Žižek
G
"Language fails us, yet we must continue to write and speak."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
S
"Perseverance is continuing in the wrong direction with great determination."
Slavoj Žižek
M
"The only way out is to go through."
Max Horkheimer
G
"Perseverance in error is preferable to capitulation to truth."
Giorgio Agamben
G
"Fidelity to a problem means continually transforming it as you work through it."
Gilles Deleuze
G
"To persist is to affirm one's own forces against all forces that would diminish them."
Gilles Deleuze
H
"The will to persevere in being is the essence of all being."
Hannah Arendt
M
"Perseverance in pointless work is merely the internalization of domination."
Max Horkheimer
G
"Perseverance means changing direction constantly without losing momentum."
Gilles Deleuze
G
"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is the space where learning happens."
Gilles Deleuze
T
"The gesture of refusal must be made again and again, knowing it will always be recuperated."
Theodor Adorno
I
"Perseverance is the path to all worthy goals."
Isaiah Berlin
M
"Suffering preserves the memory of what could be different."
Max Horkheimer
H
"The life of human beings is something which continually renews itself out of its ashes."
Hannah Arendt
J
"The persistence of suffering demands ongoing theoretical and practical commitment to its elimination."
Jürgen Habermas
I
"Perseverance without wisdom is merely stubborn folly."
Isaiah Berlin
M
"Perseverance without vision becomes mere obstinacy."
Max Horkheimer
M
"Perseverance in a wrong direction merely reaches the wrong destination faster."
Max Horkheimer
G
"Perseverance overcomes all obstacles."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I
"Seek perfection of character and forget success."
Immanuel Kant
I
"Perseverance is often just the refusal to admit defeat, even when defeat is the only rational choice."
Isaiah Berlin
H
"History offers no guarantees for the future."
Hannah Arendt
G
"Progress is not automatic; history is the struggle of reason against resistance."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I
"Perseverance is not stubbornness; it is the commitment to a worthy goal."
Isaiah Berlin
I
"Perseverance is the commitment to try again after failure."
Isaiah Berlin
I
"The person who makes no mistakes makes no progress."
Immanuel Kant
I
"Perseverance in duty despite obstacles is the mark of virtue."
Immanuel Kant
B
"Life itself is a continuous struggle and development."
Baruch Spinoza