Quotes About Persistence

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He's broken because he doesn't keep going after those things happen.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, "How are we going to do this?".

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.