Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and teachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

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.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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

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

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

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.

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

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

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

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.