Quotes About Persistence

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

It would take one million men, one hundred years

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

Press on, press on, men.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.