Quotes About Perseverance

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I knew that coming from a family with an unhealthy social origins, things would be harder for me. Nonetheless, in my heart, hope never died. However, over time, I had learned that trying never died either. Trying was one thing I always had to do more than others, because, in the self-proclaimed society of equals, we were made to be less equal than many of the families around us.

we often neglect to tell about those who go on in their dogged way to keep the world afloat and who seek to endure in the face of great trials.

those who do not give in and who, through their sacrifices and constancy, keep the horror at bay, keep us from descending into utter chaos and darkness. In doing so, they give us hope.

Screw the punch; you want a knock-out, don't you?

like a good idea at all, once he thought of it. He did it anyway, winding

Resolve can take many forms. It can flourish within a daily routine, a list prepared each night and answered each day. Or it can take a more organic form, a desire formed and kept in view, something to move toward as time and circumstance allow.

Faith in our own talent is the gravity, the force that keeps us in orbit around the potential of our own passions and ideas, even when we are temporarily marooned on the dark side of the moon.