Quotes About Perseverance

A son of a poor man is standing in front of you today. This is the strength of a democracy.

Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.

Love perseveres. It's men who change.

Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.