Perseverance Quotes

"I am resolved to fight this evil with every ounce of my being."

"The path of principle is often the path of suffering."

"The greatest legacy I could leave my people is my example of perseverance."

"I would never go back. The North or else the grave."

"Work hard, pray harder, and never give up."

"Every obstacle I overcame made me more determined."

"I have sacrificed more for the antislavery cause than for any other."

"I believe that truth will ultimately prevail, no matter how long the battle."

"In the long struggle for justice, progress may be slow, but it is always forward."

"We cannot rest while the rights of any group are abridged."

"I didn't fail, I just found 10,000 ways that wouldn't work."

"Persistence is the path to success."

"A man is not finished when he is defeated; he is finished when he quits."

"We must fight with the tools we have."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."

"If my life is worth anything now, it is because I have exerted myself to overcome my inferiority."

"I shall not be moved."

"Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."

"Look at my arm! I have ploughed fields and planted crops."

"Every seed of greatness must first be a seed of suffering."

"The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg; it is about what you are made of."

"I have overthrown the greatest power that ever opposed me."

"I have outlived the slaveholder by outliving the system of slavery."

"My great concern is to be faithful, not to be successful."

"I have done what I believed to be right, come what may."

"I have given all I have to give for this cause."

"Be not astonished nor discouraged at the first instance of ingratitude."

"I have but one life and the length and breadth and depth of it is all I have to give."