Quotes About Persistence

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key!

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!

Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.

The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

Much ado there was, God wot; He woold love, and she woold not, She sayd, "Never man was trewe;" He sayes, "None was false to you."

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

A man must walk before he can fly - one cannot fly into flying.

I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.