It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Failure is part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

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

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

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.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

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.

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

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

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