Quotes About Perseverance

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He's broken because he doesn't keep going after those things happen.

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

Some say this country's just out looking for a fight, after 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right.

I want to be the man. I want to do what it takes to win.

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.

Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.