Only when I fall do I get up again.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

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

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.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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.

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

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

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

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