If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.
Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour day by day year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought...
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me...
When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.
When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who...
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pur...
It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white p...
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding send...
Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.