Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Perseverance is the key to achievement."
Margaret Atwood
"The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, many are strong at the broken places."
Robertson Davies
"The true test of character is not success, but failure."
Robertson Davies
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"Perseverance is stubbornness in service of something greater than yourself."
Seán Ó Faoláin
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Frank O'Connor
"Perseverance is the path to all achievement."
Frank O'Connor
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"The worst thing that ever happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Perseverance is the secret to success."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Perseverance overcomes all obstacles."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
Sean O'Casey
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"Perseverance is the silent strength that outlasts all obstacles."
Sean O'Casey
"Your wealth is determined by your ability to endure."
Douglas Coupland
"Perseverance isn't about never falling down; it's about getting back up."
Douglas Coupland
"Perseverance is refusing to accept today's defeat."
Douglas Coupland
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"Discipline is everything but not what you think."
Margaret Atwood
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"Perseverance is not about never falling down."
Margaret Atwood
"A person is not finished when he is defeated; he is finished when he quits."
Robertson Davies
"Virtue is not something that comes to us by accident; it must be cultivated."
Robertson Davies
"A man is not finished when he is defeated; he is finished when he quits trying."
Robertson Davies
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"We must accept the pain as the price of consciousness."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."
Harper Lee
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"The simple hell of it is, we are licked before we started."
Harper Lee
"The only way to succeed is to fail."
Douglas Coupland
"There's something romantic about failure if you survive it."
Douglas Coupland
"Perseverance is the only real success."
Carson McCullers
"The only real failure is giving up."
Carson McCullers
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"Conflict is what tests the human character."
Eudora Welty
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"Perseverance is the path to all goals."
Eudora Welty
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"The only way out is through."
Margaret Atwood
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"Fiction writing is something that has to be sustained, that can't be done in a kind of spurt."
Flannery O'Connor