Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you've already stopped trying."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Perseverance is not blind stubbornness; it is intelligent determination."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"To persevere is to understand that failure is merely feedback."
Amy Lowell
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"Perseverance is the quiet courage of continuing after setback."
Amy Lowell
"Every person carries within them an untold story of resilience."
Fannie Hurst
"It can never be satisfied, the mind."
Wallace Stevens
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"Defeat is only a temporary condition."
O. Henry
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
O. Henry
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"A strong mind and spirit can overcome any obstacle."
Kate Chopin
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"Perseverance is the key to unlocking our potential."
Kate Chopin
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"Perseverance transforms obstacles into opportunities."
Kate Chopin
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"Perseverance is simply the refusal to accept defeat as final."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Every limitation contains within it the seed of its own transcendence."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"My heart has a restless and sorrowing bent; it is not for long at rest."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Perseverance is courage stretched across time."
Fannie Hurst
"Perseverance is faith in action over extended time."
Fannie Hurst
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"To persevere is to understand that every obstacle is a stepping stone."
Amy Lowell
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"Perseverance is the art of continuing when continuation seems impossible."
Amy Lowell
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"Perseverance is the twin of determination and parent of success."
O. Henry
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"Survival is the grim business of eking out, from a grudging environment, a precarious and temporary existence."
Jack London
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"I asked for pain, and I was given pain."
Jack London
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"I believe in the struggle."
Jack London
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"We build our character not in moments of ease, but in times of struggle."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Progress is not inevitable; it requires constant vigilance and effort from every generation."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"It is not enough to survive. One must be worthy of survival."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"I have danced with death and lived to tell the tale."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"The world breaks everyone; afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Kate Chopin
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"To persevere is to believe that meaning can be found even in suffering."
Kate Chopin
"We grow through the struggles we endure."
Fannie Hurst
"We must be willing to fail to truly succeed."
Fannie Hurst