Quotes About Perseverance

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

A man destined to hang can never drown

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. "Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself. I set off, off to kill the man I loved.

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.