Quotes About Perseverance

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

Man must endure his going hence.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.