Quotes About Persistence

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.