Quotes About Persistence

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Men can bear all things but good days.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.