Quotes About Perseverance

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.