Perseverance Quotes

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

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"I have never seen the usefulness of doing anything by halves"
Charles Dickens
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"Perseverance turns mountains into molehills"
Charles Dickens
"Perfection is a road, not a destination; every time we think we have arrived, we begin again."
Émile Zola
"The warrior spirit lives in those who never surrender."
Émile Zola
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"The greatest misfortune that can happen to a man is not to have endured hardship."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."
Alexandre Dumas
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"True nobility is being superior to your former self."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Genius is a long patience."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Difficulties are divine surgeries."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Adversity is the price of greatness."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The period of life which I have passed through has been one of continual struggle."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The most important thing is to persevere."
Victor Hugo
"Talent is a long patience."
Gustave Flaubert
"We must not say that a thing is strange, for nothing is strange to those who work."
Gustave Flaubert
"Perfection is no small thing; it demands everything of us."
Gustave Flaubert
"The pursuit of perfection is the enemy of the good."
Gustave Flaubert
"Great works are produced not by strength but by perseverance."
Émile Zola
"The human spirit is capable of enduring immense suffering and emerging stronger."
Émile Zola
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Perseverance is the hallmark of champions."
Alexandre Dumas
"I have been blasted by adversity, yet not entirely destroyed."
Mary Shelley
"My spirit remains unbroken despite all hardships."
Mary Shelley
"My greatest mistake was my greatest lesson."
Mary Shelley
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"Adversity is the nurse of greatness."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Perseverance is the twin of hope."
Charlotte Brontë
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"I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the fact is mine."
Charles Dickens
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"Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike."
Charles Dickens
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"The greatest victories are won not in loud moments but in quiet suffering."
Charles Dickens
"One must learn to love the struggle itself, not merely its resolution."
Émile Zola
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity exposes us to its other side."
Honoré de Balzac