Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Perseverance is what separates dreamers from achievers."
Langston Hughes
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Ernest Hemingway
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"A man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Boats against the current."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Failure is just the beginning."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"It seems to me that effort is the thing that really counts."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked all the pots."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The human spirit is capable of overcoming any obstacle."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Talent is something, but persistence is everything."
James Baldwin
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"Growth comes through challenge, not comfort."
Pearl S. Buck
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"A man who has won a victory over himself knows something of the mercy of the Almighty."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
Sinclair Lewis
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"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."
John Steinbeck
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"I have become tired of following people who insist on moving the goal line every time I come close."
John Steinbeck
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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to say anything in this world."
Ernest Hemingway
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"True nobility is being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The life of a man is interesting primarily when he has failed."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Resistance to something is the first step toward undertaking it."
Ernest Hemingway
"Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion of the moment has passed."
Theodore Dreiser
"Perseverance is not a long race."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The person who says it is impossible should not interrupt the person doing it."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Persistence is the beginning of the possible."
Edith Wharton
"The land keeps faith with those who keep faith with it."
Willa Cather
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"The minute a man ceases to struggle, to think, to invent things for himself, he is going to cease to progress."
Sinclair Lewis
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Ernest Hemingway