Quotes About Persistence

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

No man fails who does his best.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.