Perseverance Quotes
Every great achievement required someone who refused to quit. These quotes tell that story.
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"The price of growth is always discomfort."Robertson Davies
"You must be willing to lose your life for it."Cormac McCarthy
"Patient endurance through suffering can reveal the depths of human character."Carson McCullers
"The greatest strength is the ability to begin again after failure."Carson McCullers
"Perseverance is the silent companion of all great achievement."Eudora Welty
"Perseverance is not about never falling; it is about rising each time you fall."Joyce Carol Oates
"Discipline is the price of freedom; without it, you are enslaved by impulse."Joyce Carol Oates
"Hardship makes you think about the future."Margaret Atwood
"Atticus said to simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."Harper Lee
"I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide."Harper Lee
"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."Harper Lee
"We must accept our fate and make the best of it"Robertson Davies
"Perseverance is the path to all worthwhile things"Robertson Davies
"The reason for my extreme diligence is that I have a great deal of difficulty in seeing anything at all."Flannery O'Connor
"The writer must suffer for his work, and not merely pretend to suffer."Flannery O'Connor
"The novelist must be able to sustain his vision through doubt and darkness."Flannery O'Connor
"Most people are not willing to do what it takes. Most people want it easy."Cormac McCarthy
"Perseverance is not strength. It's the refusal to accept defeat."Cormac McCarthy
"Growth requires perseverance, and perseverance requires faith."Carson McCullers
"If you wish to work in a certain medium, you have to make the attempt and the failures."Eudora Welty
"Achievement comes to those who persist through failure."Eudora Welty
"Perseverance is not about never falling; it's about rising each time."Joyce Carol Oates
"Perseverance often looks like stubbornness until it succeeds."Joyce Carol Oates
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."Harper Lee
"Simply because we're licked doesn't mean we can't still try."Harper Lee
"Pursue, keep pursuing, with the same reverential intensity of a man in those final days of his life."David Foster Wallace
"In the confusion we stay human. When the struggle ceases, the meaning is lost."Saul Bellow
"Anything that does not take years of your life and drive you to madness is not worth doing."Cormac McCarthy
"Perseverance is not about never falling but about always rising again."Carson McCullers
"We cannot skip the difficult chapters of our story and still grow."Carson McCullers