Quotes About Perseverance

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

A man that is down doesn't fear to fall.

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

No man fails who does his best.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!