Quotes About Perseverance

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.

I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

She was a beautiful woman, if not a happy one, and attracting a man was never a problem. Keeping one, however, was a different matter.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

Man believes and lives.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.