Quotes about Perseverance
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
- Theodore Roosevelt
And man will go on. Man, not men.
- Ayn Rand
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
- Thomas Jefferson
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.
- Washington Irving
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
- William Faulkner
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
- JRR Tolkien
We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.
- Charles Spurgeon
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- Charles Spurgeon
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
- Cormac McCarthy
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
- Elbert Hubbard
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt