Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

Irrevocable commitments that offer loopholes, not bail-out provisions, and no parachute clauses will extract incredible productivity and performance.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

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

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.

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

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

No garden is without its weeds.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

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

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

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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

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.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

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.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

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

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.