He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split...
A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.
If at first you don't succeed try try try again.
For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again.
The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Removing a diamond on a rock is painful but it's more painful when it loses its value when it's not cherished, let alone shaping.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all th...
Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Slow motion gets you there faster.
My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.