Quotes About Perseverance

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.