Perseverance Quotes

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

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"I am my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another."
Walt Whitman
"Sing on, sing on, you gray-brown bird."
Walt Whitman
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"I try all things, I achieve what I can."
Herman Melville
"The human spirit is capable of overcoming the greatest obstacles."
James Fenimore Cooper
"To persevere through hardship is to forge one's character in the flames of adversity."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"To obsess over perfection is to guarantee failure."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I have learned more from failure than from success."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I have learned to dance with my demons."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."
Emily Dickinson
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"The strength to endure is the strength of becoming."
Emily Dickinson
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"Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough at the gate, you must be let in."
Washington Irving
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles by the ears, by the hair, or by any other means you can muster."
Mark Twain
"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."
Mark Twain
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"It is the unbroken spirit that conquers fate, not the breaking of waves."
Herman Melville
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"Perseverance is stubbornness elevated to virtue."
Herman Melville
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"Only through perseverance do we discover our true strength."
Herman Melville
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"Our doubts are traitors that make us lose the good we often might win."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The struggle against a great evil exhausts us as much as the victory."
Edgar Allan Poe
"No great man has ever completed any great work who did not possess patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
Emily Dickinson
"Perfection is not just about control, it's also about letting go."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Perseverance is not giving up."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Persevere always."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Disappointment, when it comes, is just as tough in the beginning as it ought to be."
Henry James
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"The principle of the endless head-on crash."
Henry James
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"Perseverance is the path to all great achievements."
François Mauriac
"The man who does not make mistakes, does not usually make anything at all."
Mark Twain
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"Success belongs to those who keep trying after others have given up."
Nathaniel Hawthorne