Quotes About Perseverance

I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.

Beware the anger of a patient man.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Men meet; mountains, never.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.

Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.