Quotes About Persistence

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

Identity" had been forever changed by the Internet; formerly it had meant "who you really are" but now it meant "any one of a number of persistent faces that you can present to the digital universe.

Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.

The answer is, I chose to seek my fortune. Failed. Lost all. Then got a fortune I had not ever looked for. Lost it though. Got it back. Lost it. Got another - the story is somewhat repetitious.

this is how it's done, you pile one thing on top of the next and you keep it up and keep it up—sometimes the galleon sinks in a typhoon, you don't get your slab of granite that year—but you stick with it and eventually you end up with something sooo big.

flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. —John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Step