Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Perseverance is the weapon of the weak against the strong."
Al-Ghazali
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"Even the mediocre must persevere."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
Augustine of Hippo
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Perseverance in the face of opposition is the mark of a noble character."
Averroes
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"The obstacle itself often contains the seed of its own solution."
Averroes
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"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."
Cicero
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory in surmounting it."
Cicero
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"To master a craft requires humility enough to learn from failure and persistence enough to continue."
Avicenna
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"A life without struggle is a life without growth; embrace the trials as teachers."
Avicenna
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"Failure is not in falling down. Failure is in not getting up."
Epictetus
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
Epictetus
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"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Epictetus
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"Whenever you fail, do not let your failure teach you to fail."
Epictetus
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"The only true failure is giving up."
Epictetus
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
Seneca
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"Not that the evils of life have been cured, but that our sense of them has become numbed and callous."
Seneca
"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes any obstacle to its action."
Marcus Aurelius
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Every failure contains within it the seeds of future success for the perceptive mind."
Averroes
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"A man who wishes to establish himself in virtue should first strengthen his reason."
Cicero
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"The perfection of moral virtue is not easily achieved."
Thomas Aquinas
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"To achieve something great, one must possess the virtue of perseverance."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
Seneca
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"No one has ever won a war by being the first to leave the battlefield."
Seneca
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"The man who cannot endure small ills can never accomplish great things."
Seneca
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"The obstacle in the path becomes the path."
Seneca
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"What would have become of Hercules if there had been no difficult and challenging obstacles?"
Epictetus
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"If you encounter difficulties, remember they are the substance of virtue."
Epictetus
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"Pain is temporary; the strength gained from enduring it is permanent."
Epictetus