Quotes About Perseverance

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

A man is more than his failings.