Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Every obstacle is an opportunity to prove your worth."
Epictetus
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"Pain does not last forever."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Physical suffering, when prolonged, brings ease rather than sorrow."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Conquer yourself, and the world lies at your feet."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The fact of your past sin is no bar to your present virtue."
Augustine of Hippo
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Marcus Aurelius
"The only way out is through."
Marcus Aurelius
"The impediment is the way."
Marcus Aurelius
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Nothing is so hateful to the strong as failure in a strong man."
Cicero
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"The highest courage is not in victory but in perseverance."
Cicero
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"Perseverance in learning requires the acceptance that mastery is always distant, yet always achievable."
Averroes
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"Perseverance in the study of nature rewards the patient mind."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"The virtuous person does not act from virtue because they find it difficult; they act from virtue because it has become natural to them."
Thomas Aquinas
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"To be virtuous is not to suppress our passions but to direct them rightly."
Thomas Aquinas
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"A person of good character is one who has habituated themselves to virtue."
Thomas Aquinas
T
"Temperance is the virtue that orders the passions in submission to reason."
Thomas Aquinas
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"The capacity to endure hardship is not determined by the hardship itself but by our attitude toward it."
Seneca
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"In life, as in the gymnasium, the effort counts, not the achievement."
Seneca
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"Struggle is the father of all things."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Epictetus
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"If you achieve something through struggle, you understand it more deeply than if it came easily."
Epictetus
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"What could be worse for an athlete than training all his life for competition and losing due to carelessness?"
Epictetus
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"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest."
Mencius
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"The roots of virtue are in the cultivation of the self."
Mencius
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"Righteousness is not a destination but a journey."
Mencius
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
Cicero
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"Nothing is impossible to the man who will try."
Cicero
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"I come, I saw, I overcame through perseverance."
Cicero
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Marcus Aurelius