Quotes About Perseverance

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

No man is lost while he yet lives.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.