Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Adversity reveals the character that prosperity conceals."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Sow virtue, reap custom."
Victor Hugo
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"The supreme art of life is the development of character."
Victor Hugo
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"There is no birth of consciousness without pain."
Victor Hugo
"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you felt a deep resolve take birth in you."
Gustave Flaubert
"The pursuit of perfection should not prevent the completion of the good."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Without challenge, we cannot grow; without struggle, we cannot become."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Perseverance is the silent force that moves mountains over time."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Perseverance is the quiet triumph of the determined spirit."
Alexandre Dumas
"Even broken and defeated, I am invincible."
Mary Shelley
"I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly."
Mary Shelley
"Progress is impossible without sacrifice."
Mary Shelley
"Life is a struggle; those who refuse to fight are already defeated."
Émile Zola
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"The greatest delight is in the hard achievement of progress"
John Keats
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"I have been endeavouring to discover the cause of these headaches"
John Keats
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"My life has been one long struggle."
Charles Dickens
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"Each misery teaches us something precious."
Charles Dickens
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"The man of perseverance will achieve what the talented man cannot."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Perseverance is the art of never surrendering to circumstance."
Honoré de Balzac
"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed."
William Wordsworth
"Perseverance breaks all barriers."
William Wordsworth
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
Victor Hugo
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"The greatest names in our history were men who understood the value of effort and persistence."
Victor Hugo
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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Perseverance always pays off."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Where are you? If anywhere, I shall find you."
Mary Shelley
"Suffering ennobles the soul, if we let it."
Mary Shelley
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"The human heart has hidden treasures that only time and struggle can reveal."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Perseverance is the silent companion of all great achievement."
Alexandre Dumas
"Talent is a long patience."
Gustave Flaubert