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Inspirational Perseverance Quotes

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If you're going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

— Ernest Hemingway

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

— Confucius

Still I'll rise.

— Maya Angelou

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

— Confucius

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

— Benjamin Franklin

It always seems impossible until it's done.

— Nelson Mandela

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

— Thomas Edison

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

— Thomas Edison

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

— Confucius

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

— Confucius

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

— Winston Churchill

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

— Rudyard Kipling

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

— Marcus Aurelius

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

— Theodore Roosevelt

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Never give in, never, never, never, never.

— Winston Churchill

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

— Maya Angelou

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