Quotes About Perseverance

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

At the working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

That man is best Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.