Perseverance Quotes
Every great achievement required someone who refused to quit. These quotes tell that story.
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"Habits are hard to break, especially if they have been with you a long time."Flannery O'Connor
"Perseverance is the quiet strength of the determined."Eudora Welty
"The measure of all things is the capacity to endure."Cormac McCarthy
"The only way out is through."David Foster Wallace
"The ability to sit with discomfort is the foundation of growth."David Foster Wallace
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."Harper Lee
"Do the best you can with what you have."Harper Lee
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."Saul Bellow
"A writer has to be willing to fail publicly."Norman Mailer
"The measure of a man is not in how many times he falls, but how many times he gets back up."Norman Mailer
"Once he made a decision, he was content to abide by it."Joseph Heller
"Perseverance is the key to success."Joseph Heller
"You don't have to be the best. You just have to refuse to quit."Cormac McCarthy
"To be alive is to struggle."Philip Roth
"The real work of being human is doing the things we don't want to do."David Foster Wallace
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."Saul Bellow
"We are shaped more by our failures than by our successes."Saul Bellow
"The only real failure is in not trying at all."Saul Bellow
"I could have done better."J.D. Salinger
"Perseverance is stubbornness with purpose."Joseph Heller
"The battle against chaos is the great battle of our lives."Philip Roth
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."Norman Mailer
"Perseverance is often just stubbornness that hasn't yet admitted defeat."Norman Mailer
"When I was a more angry young man, I wanted to change the world. When I was a middle-aged man, I wanted to change my town. Now I just want to change my street."Kurt Vonnegut
"I am not the first man to have had this freakish idea of converting the sort of person that society calls a criminal into a walking x-ray."William S. Burroughs
"The only way out is through."William S. Burroughs
"What if a man could become a better person by means of suffering?"David Foster Wallace
"There are hard times in every decent man's life."Saul Bellow
"Without adversity, the virtues cannot be developed."Saul Bellow
"The most important thing is to keep moving, even when you don't know where you're going."Joseph Heller