Quotes About Persistence

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.