# Quotes About Perseverance

The best quotes about perseverance: famous words from history's greatest minds to inspire you, free to read, copy, and share.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
Theodore Roosevelt
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Marie Curie
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Marcus Aurelius
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverb

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### What are the best quotes about Perseverance?

This page collects the most famous quotes about perseverance from history's greatest thinkers, writers, and leaders, including Confucius, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln. Each quote is shown with its author.

### Are these quotes about perseverance accurate?

We only publish widely cited quotes with their commonly accepted attributions, and we deliberately leave out famous misattributions. Some quotes are shown in their standard English translations, for example lines from the Tao Te Ching or Meditations.

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