Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Perseverance is continuing when we no longer see the purpose."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Those who have never known the deep satisfaction of doing something they believe is worth doing will never know the deep despair of failure."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Perseverance is the choice to continue without hope of completion."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Perseverance is the virtue of those with nowhere else to go."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"We must learn to desire the difficult and the painful as the only things worth having."
Weil, Simone
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"Perseverance is the companion of those who achieve great things."
Moore, George Edward
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"Perseverance turns obstacles into stepping stones toward achievement."
Moore, George Edward
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"Perseverance is not stubbornness but the courage to continue when the way is unclear."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Perseverance is continuing when meaning itself becomes questionable."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Perseverance is the refusal to accept imposed conclusions."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Perseverance is the persistence of the meaningless."
Bataille, Georges
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"Every person must work out their own salvation with diligence."
Buber, Martin
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"Perseverance is faith made visible in action."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Perseverance is the refusal to accept despair."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Persistence defeats despair."
Althusser, Louis
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"Perseverance is the refusal of final defeat, not guaranteed victory."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Perseverance in the wrong direction is merely prolonged suffering."
Bataille, Georges
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"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Perseverance is the victory of the will over circumstance."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Perseverance without clarity of purpose leads nowhere."
Lukács, György
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"Perseverance without hope is merely exhaustion."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Perseverance becomes virtue only when directed toward justice."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The moment of perseverance arrives when you finally stop believing in results."
Bataille, Georges
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"The intellectuals who come from the working class have a special responsibility to their origin."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"The battle for hearts and minds is won through patient, persistent cultural work."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Perseverance in the face of impossible odds is itself a form of freedom."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Perseverance without hope is a form of despair."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Perseverance means continuing to question even when answers are demanded."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Perseverance means resisting the demand to accept what is given."
Horkheimer, Max
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"One must be deeply pessimistic about the world and yet work as though victory were inevitable."
Gramsci, Antonio