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Quotes About Perseverance

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
~ Natasha Trethewey
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
~ Poul Anderson
Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.
~ Ray Lewis
Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
~ Robert Vaughn
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
~ Saint Basil
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
~ Samuel Smiles
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
~ Sigmund Freud
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself
~ Sophocles
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
~ Max Lerner
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.
~ Adolf Hitler
Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.
~ Arthur Miller
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Goal achievement is hero's work.
~ Bill Vaughan
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
~ Caroline Gordon
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
~ Samuel Butler
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
~ Samuel Smiles
There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
~ Satchel Paige
Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?
~ Simonides of Ceos
A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.
~ Steve Sheinkin
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
~ Tom Hardy
Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
~ Walter Reisch