He who perseveres wins at last.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.