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Quotes About Persistence

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
~ H. L. Mencken
Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
~ Henry David Thoreau
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.
~ Hiroyuki Takei
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.
~ Homer
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
~ Horace
Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.
~ J. Ogden Armour
I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.
~ James Lane Allen
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
~ Jane Austen
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value
~ Jim Rohn
Man must strive, and striving he must err.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.
~ John C. Maxwell
What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.
~ John Dunning
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
~ John F. Kennedy
Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
~ John Heywood
Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
~ John Heywood
Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
~ Vince Lombardi
An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
~ Marla Sokoloff
My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.
~ Jennifer Lopez
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.
~ Maz Jobrani