Quotes About Perseverance

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

Difficulty shows what men are.

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.