Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Nobody's going to agree with you all the time. You just got to keep going."
Thurgood Marshall
"I've had many setbacks, but I never gave up. That's the key to success."
Thurgood Marshall
"The path to justice is long, but we must stay the course."
Thurgood Marshall
F
"Genius is not born with insight, but develops it through struggle."
Frederick Douglass
F
"The habit of exertion becomes easy with practice."
Frederick Douglass
F
"I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory."
Frederick Douglass
R
"I would like to be remembered as a person who stood up for what she believed in."
Rosa Parks
R
"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to walk in the rain."
Rosa Parks
R
"I have learned that setbacks are not failures, but opportunities to grow."
Rosa Parks
W
"The world is rising up, and I rise with it."
W.E.B. Du Bois
S
"Failure is impossible when women stand together for their rights."
Susan B. Anthony
S
"I have been the most persistent speaker on the woman question for more than fifty years."
Susan B. Anthony
S
"I have spent fifty years fighting for the rights of woman, and I am not tired yet."
Susan B. Anthony
S
"I have made my vow to continue this fight as long as I have breath in my body."
Susan B. Anthony
"Every great reform movement has its roots in struggle and sacrifice."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"We must be willing to sacrifice our convenience for our convictions."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"We must be as persistent as the tide, returning again and again until we succeed."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"Persistence is not a sign of weakness; it is a sign of strength and conviction."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"We must be willing to be uncomfortable in the pursuit of what is right."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"We shall not be moved, and we shall not be silent, until justice prevails."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"The greatest monuments to human progress are not built by the powerful, but by the persistent."
Emmeline Pankhurst
I
"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term was completed was abhorrent to me."
Indira Gandhi
I
"I have never understood the concept of surrender."
Indira Gandhi
I
"Patience and persistence are the keys to success."
Indira Gandhi
"Perseverance is the path to success."
Jawaharlal Nehru
B
"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
Booker T. Washington
B
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles overcome."
Booker T. Washington
B
"At the foundation of every noble work we find labor, not chance. The foundation of every noble life is placed in patient and constant toil."
Booker T. Washington
B
"Every man or woman who has achieved success has had to overcome enormous obstacles."
Booker T. Washington
B
"Through patient labor and perseverance, mountains are tunneled and rivers are spanned."
Booker T. Washington