Quotes About Perseverance

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.

The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.