* Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

* My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln

* The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill

* Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
Richard L. Evans

* Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger.
Herbert Hoover

* Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Admiral Hyman Rickover

* To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

* Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

* You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Gorden B. Hinkley

* I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller

* Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings

* People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.
Anonymous

* In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown

* I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison

* Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn