Quotes About Perseverance

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.

Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.