Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Perseverance is the habit of continuing despite constant disappointment."
Theodore Dreiser
"The frontier teaches harsh lessons that softness cannot afford to ignore."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Perseverance is the currency in which great debts are paid."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"The fortunate are those who learned early that failure is merely tuition."
Edith Wharton
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"Perseverance is the art of refusing to quit."
Edith Wharton
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"One can live on twenty dollars a year in America with care and courage."
Louisa May Alcott
"Perseverance through difficulty builds character and strength."
Louisa May Alcott
"A pioneer must love the land before the land will make him rich."
Willa Cather
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"I am still nothing, but a struggling artist."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"There is a strange power in habit that shapes our character and destiny."
Washington Irving
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"Perseverance is the key that unlocks every locked door of opportunity."
Washington Irving
"Perseverance through hardship reveals the depth of our character."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Perseverance is the virtue of those who have lost everything but refuse to lose hope."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Perseverance in a just cause is never without its reward."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"The struggle is the greatest gift, not the victory."
Edgar Allan Poe
"We come and go, but the land is always here."
Willa Cather
"It's a nice thing to have accomplishments to look back on."
Louisa May Alcott
"Being discontented makes one thorough."
Louisa May Alcott
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Perseverance is the quiet determination that builds mountains from grains of sand."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The power to persevere is the ability to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones."
Washington Irving
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"Perseverance is the art of continuing to walk when the path becomes steep and obscured."
Washington Irving
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"The greatest influence upon my life has been my suffering."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Perseverance is stubbornness transformed into virtue."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain