Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."
Captain Ahab
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"Millions are condemned to a stiffer fate."
Jane Eyre
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"Whatever I do, if it is at all virtuous, I will strive to the last gasp to complete it."
Jane Eyre
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"There are such beings in the world, perhaps one in thousands."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart"
Pip
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"I resolved that the time had come to strengthen my mind"
Pip
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"I shall endure it as I may."
Hester Prynne
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"I've fought through a bitter life since then. My constitution and temper made me what I am."
Heathcliff
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and I have been taught by it."
Pip
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"Whatever I do, I do with all my heart."
Jane Eyre
J
"Suffering has strengthened and refined me."
Jane Eyre
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"The moment we cease to struggle is the moment we cease to live."
Edmond Dantès
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"I have been a bad boy, but I have meant well."
Pip
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"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."
Pip
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"I have resolved to live."
Edmond Dantès
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"Suffering ennobles the soul."
Abbé Faria
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"I have lived through an age of troubles."
Jane Eyre
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"I have been tested, and I have endured."
Jane Eyre
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"Perseverance overcomes all obstacles."
Edmond Dantès
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"The hunt was eternal, without beginning and without end"
Ishmael
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."
Pip
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"I had never known what struggle was until I was borne away from the village."
Pip
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"There is a law that compels all beings to endure all the trials they can bear."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"I have suffered, and in suffering, I have found my purpose."
Edmond Dantès
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"Perseverance conquers all obstacles."
Edmond Dantès
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"Perseverance is the virtue by which all things are accomplished."
Don Quixote
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"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Cape of Good Hope, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up."
Captain Ahab
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"The human spirit is capable of enduring the impossible."
Jean Valjean
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"I will not rest until justice has been served"
Edmond Dantès