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

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

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

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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

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

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.

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.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.

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.

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

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

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.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.