It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
We must dare and dare again and go on daring.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
He conquers who endures.
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
To be somebody you must last.
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the mu...
I bend but I do not break.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial...
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is "Don't grumble. Plug on!"
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
As long as one keeps searching the answers come.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.