Quotes About Perseverance

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.

An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.

Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

Cursing herself, she said, "I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how tight in the head I'm going to be. Really. For real.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

I think Tiger Woods is a determined young man who really wants to play.

I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.