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