Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Every failure is a stepping stone to greater understanding."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Persistence is the child of hope and the parent of success."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A ship is a teacher of temperance and perseverance."
Herman Melville
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"The greatest triumphs come through the greatest trials."
Herman Melville
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Herman Melville
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"Without the spice of hunger, there is no relish for the feast."
Anatole France
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."
Anatole France
"Perseverance is continuing to suffer when you could simply quit."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"All suffering is noble, if we choose to see it that way."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The roots of perseverance are often watered by tears."
François Mauriac
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"Perseverance is not the absence of doubt but continuation despite it."
François Mauriac
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"Renunciation is a piercing Virtue."
Emily Dickinson
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"The Props assist the House until the House is built."
Emily Dickinson
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"Sorrow comes in great waves, but it rolls over us and though it may almost suffocate us it leaves us on the shore, safe, rescued even, for the moment."
Henry James
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"Do something which will cost you something."
Henry James
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"The faculty for taking trouble is the sine qua non of achievement."
Henry James
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
Mark Twain
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"A man must learn to struggle with the winds of fortune."
Herman Melville
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"To resist is often to persist."
Herman Melville
"Perseverance is the refuge of the mediocre."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Perseverance conquers all obstacles."
Romain Rolland
"Perseverance is the path to victory."
Romain Rolland
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"Perseverance is often just stubbornness that happened to succeed."
François Mauriac
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"Perseverance is not a virtue but a necessity for those who would succeed"
Henry James
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"Perseverance is the virtue of the strong, but also the only hope of the weak"
Henry James
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The only way out is through."
Marcel Proust
"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on himself."
André Gide
"We cannot always be right; but we can always be faithful."
André Gide
"The obstacle is the way."
André Gide