Quotes About Perseverance

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

I like the way you hustle man.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

It would take one million men, one hundred years

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.