Quotes About Perseverance

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

I can stand out the war with any man.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

It's true that the man stealer is always lurking around the corner it's just our job and your duty to make sure they back up!

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

Every ill man hath his ill day.

The life of man is a winter way.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]