Quotes About Perseverance

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

I was not always a man of woe.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.