“Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.”

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American author 1945

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye (2000), Chapter 41; words of Agnes Lampion

“One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.”

William the Silent (1533–1584) stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, leader of the Dutch Revolt

As quoted in O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture (1963) by Edmund Wilson

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”

Mark Twain book Life on the Mississippi

Source: Life on the Mississippi

“It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin.”

Leó Szilárd (1898–1964) Physicist and biologist

As quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE‎ magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79
Context: It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”

Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist

'La vie n’est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. Il faut croire que l’on est doué pour quelque chose, et que, cette chose, il faut l'atteindre coûte que coûte.'
As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, Part 2, p. 116