Quotes About Perseverance

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.

Press on, press on, men.

Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.