Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

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

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.