Perseverance Quotes
Every great achievement required someone who refused to quit. These quotes tell that story.
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"Life owes to us nothing more than we owe to ourselves."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The spirit grows through adversity as the oak grows through the storm."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."Romain Rolland
"Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, more intelligently."François Mauriac
"Perseverance is the art of keeping hope alive when reason suggests giving up."François Mauriac
"Perseverance is the continuation of desire long after hope has departed."Anatole France
"The only way out is through, and the only way through is down."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. But I think a light shines upon the world."Henry James
"The only real failure is the failure to try."Henry James
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."Marcel Proust
"The sole endeavor of all human activity should be directed toward achieving perfection."André Gide
"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."Albert Camus
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."Romain Rolland
"Perseverance is the choice to continue when all reasons to stop have presented themselves."Romain Rolland
"To be a woman and a writer is to be twice stigmatized."Simone de Beauvoir
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."Anatole France
"A person who makes no mistakes never tries anything new."Anatole France
"Perfection is not possible, but improvement always is."Montesquieu
"Perseverance is not the absence of doubt, but the continuation despite it"Jean-Paul Sartre
"A person shows his character in the way he handles setbacks."Marcel Proust
"The battlefield of life is won not by those who never fall, but by those who rise after falling."Romain Rolland
"Perseverance is not the absence of doubt but continuation despite it."Romain Rolland
"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and hanging on grimly that you accomplish what is needful."André Gide
"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."Albert Camus
"The greatest human endeavor is not to succeed, but to endure with dignity."Albert Camus
"We must strive to become worthy of our suffering."Albert Camus
"There is no such thing as a natural gift; it is just practice."Denis Diderot
"The struggle is the meaning."Jean-Paul Sartre
"The struggle itself toward equality becomes the height of human achievement."Simone de Beauvoir
"Suffering has been stronger teachers than joy."Marcel Proust