Quotes About Persistence

Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

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

The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

The life of a Repo Man is always intense.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.