If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.