Some dividend stocks have staying power. You can count on them to pay dividends quarter after quarter as well as deliver solid growth over the long term.

We asked three Motley Fool contributors to identify dividend stocks that you can hold forever. Here's why they picked AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). 

David Jagielski (AbbVie): For a dividend-paying company to be a good investment to hold forever, it should have a solid track record for increasing dividends, strong fundamentals, and plenty of growth opportunities. AbbVie has all of those things.

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