Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

- Yoko Ono

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

- Thomas Alva Edison

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

- T. S. Eliot

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

- Michelle Obama

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

- Pauline Kael

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

- Thomas Edison

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

- Brian Tracy

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

- Rabbi Tarfon

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

- Brian Tracy

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

- Alistair Cooke

No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.

- Jean de La Bruyere

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

- Wilma Mankiller



Diligence is the mother of good luck.

- Benjamin Franklin



Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

- William Penn



Push on -- keep moving.

- Thomas Merton



If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

- Bill Clinton



Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

- Barack Obama



Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

- Herodotus



There is no failure except in no longer trying.

- Elbert Hubbard



When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt



When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe



Perseverance, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

- Ambrose Bierce



If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford



I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

- Walter Cronkite



I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

- Julia Ward Howe



Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

- Margaret Mead



Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

- Stephen Covey



Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden



Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.

- John Dewey



For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Mary Kay Ash



Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

- Jane Addams



If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

- W. C. Fields



Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

- Sophia Loren



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.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Alva Edison



Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie



Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

- Ovid



The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost



Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas Alva Edison



What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

- Victor Frankl



The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

- Benjamin Disraeli