Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

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

One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

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

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

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

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

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.

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.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

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

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

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