Quotes About Perseverance

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Men can bear all things but good days.

I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.