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Inspirational Quotes About Perseverance

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Index_card_top “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
 
Victor Hugo (1802-1885);
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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Index_card_top “Your purpose may not always be obvious, but always remember that you do have a purpose.”
 
Rodney Williams (born 1959);

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Index_card_top “I cannot look back with regrets, but I can look forward optimistically. ”
 
Cornelius Kilgore (born 1973);
Military
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Index_card_top “Failure is no more a permanent condition than success! For even if you succeed, there’s still another test. ”
 
Gene Bedley - National Educator Of The Year
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Index_card_top “I am happy for who I am, and what I have come to be. I look forward to whatever else that may come with positivity.”
 
Cornelius Kilgore (born 1973);
Military
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Index_card_top “It always seems impossible until its done.”
 
Nelson Mandela (born 1918);
Former President Of South Africa
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Index_card_top “It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way.”
 
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888);
Novelist
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Index_card_top “If your dream requires patience, give it. ”
 
M. Russell Ballard (born 1928);
Apostle, Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints


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Index_card_top “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.”
 
Zig Ziglar (born 1926);
Motivational Author, Speaker
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Index_card_top “It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.”
 
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586);
Poet, Soldier


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Index_card_top “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955);
Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ”
 
Thomas Paine (1737-1809);
Scholar, Intellectual, Writer
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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
 
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988);
American Author.


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Index_card_top “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
 
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829);
6th Us President
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Index_card_top “There is not enough darkness in the world to extinguish a single candle flame.”
 
Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1286);
Catholic Saint, Founder Of Franciscans
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Index_card_top “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
 
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821);
Emporer Of France
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Index_card_top “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins — not through strength but by perseverance.”
 
Jackson Browne (born 1948);
Rock Musician


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Index_card_top “With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ”
 
Sir Thomas Buxton (1786-1845);
British Member Of Parliament
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Index_card_top “Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.”
 
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Index_card_top “It's not how many times you get knocked down that count, it's how many times you get back up. ”
 
George A. Custer (1839-1876);
U.S. Military


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Index_card_top “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
 
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881);
Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Index_card_top “Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
 
George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880);
Novelist, Editor
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Index_card_top “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
 
Walter Elliott (1842-1928);
Clergyman, Author


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Index_card_top “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”
 
Victor Hugo (1802-1885);
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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Index_card_top “If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784);
Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer
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Index_card_top “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
 
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968);
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882);
Poet
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Index_card_top “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
 
Dolly Parton (born 1946);
Singer Songwriter, Actress, Author, Philanthropist
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Index_card_top “I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
 
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004);
Actor, Producer, Director, And Writer; Best Known For His Role As Superman
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Index_card_top “I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
 
John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1839-1937);
Oil Magnate, Philanthropist
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Index_card_top “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.”
 
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919);
26th U.S. President
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Index_card_top “Success flourishes only in perseverance--ceaseless, restless perseverance.”
 
Baron Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918);
Former Fighter Pilot


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Index_card_top “Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”
 
Plutarch (46-127);
Historian, Writer
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Index_card_top “It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.”
 
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Index_card_top “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ”
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945);
32nd U.S. President
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Index_card_top “Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
 
Earl Nightingale (1921-1989);
Entrepreneur, Motivational Author
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Index_card_top “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
 
Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914);
Journalist, Photographer


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Index_card_top “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
 
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964);
American General And Field Marshal
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“The best way out is always through. ”
 
Robert Frost (1874-1963);
Poet
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Index_card_top “There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.”
 
Vincent "Vince" Lombardi (1913-1970);
Athletic Coach
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 09/02/10
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.”
 
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Writer
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“Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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Index_card_top “The only person who can really motivate you is you.”
 
Shaquille "Shaq" O'Neal (born 1972);
National Basketball Association Player


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“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. ”
 
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
 
Robert Frost (1874-1963);
Poet
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 07/08/11
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger in the broken places.”
 
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961);
Novelist, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/06/11
“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. ”
 
Polybius (200 -118 BC);
Greek Statesman And Historian


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“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. ”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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