Perseverance Quotes

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

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"Sometimes we must do unpleasant things to survive."
Mariam
T
"The battle was over."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
P
"Survival is a matter of taking things one day at a time."
Pi Patel
S
"All my life I had to fight."
Sofia
M
"Suffering is like a vast ocean. You cannot cross it by swimming; you must learn to survive on it."
Mariam
P
"I am still hot, still troubled, but I am here."
Pi Patel
P
"I had to keep my mind occupied to stay sane."
Pi Patel
P
"I counted every day I lived on the lifeboat."
Pi Patel
O
"I am still alive."
Offred
M
"I have endured too much to be broken by words."
Mariam
M
"A woman's will can move mountains."
Mariam
S
"One does one's best and one moves forward."
Stevens
H
"I was getting tired of the woods."
Huckleberry Finn
S
"One simply carries on with one's duties."
Stevens
M
"We endure. It is the only thing to do."
Mariam
M
"Women like us. We endure."
Mariam
O
"I'm not going to leave this place. There's nowhere else to go."
Offred
C
"I make myself wood. I'm a tree."
Celie
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"The mistakes one makes are one's own responsibility."
Stevens
S
"One must be prepared for unexpected turns of events."
Stevens
H
"I was between a rock and a hard place."
Huckleberry Finn
H
"The thing was to get up the river some way or other."
Huckleberry Finn
M
"Endure, she said. Endure."
Mariam
J
"To go back is impossible; to go forward is everything."
Jean Valjean
T
"I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
Offred
H
"We hadn't had nothing to eat in two days."
Huckleberry Finn
S
"All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles."
Sofia
T
"I'm trying to overcome my habit of irresponsibility."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"My task is to overcome my own blindness."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)