Quotes about Perseverance
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.
— Ted Dekker
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
— Aristotle
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
— CS Lewis
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
— Charles Dickens
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
— Henry Parry Liddon
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
— Henry Ward Beecher