Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending…

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

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.

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

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

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

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

Faced with a mountain, I will not quit. I will keep on striving until I climb over it, find a path through it, tunnel under it, or simply stay and turn it into a gold mine.