Quotes About Perseverance

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Alright, manly man," he says. "Go prove that you're a man.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.