Success doesn't happen overnight. It takes soul-searching, hard work, and many years to achieve it.

Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of men do.

Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.

There is no substitute for persistence!

Millions of people look at the achievements of Henry Ford, after he has arrived, and envy him, because of his good fortune, or luck, or genius, or whatever it is that they credit for Ford's fortune. Perhaps one person in every hundred thousand knows the secret of Ford's success, and those who do know are too modest, or

Form the habit of going the extra mile, giving service that is not expected, for this attracts friends, clients, and supporters in many ways

The quality and quantity of the service you render, plus the attitude with which you render it, determine the amount of pay you get and the sort of job you hold.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you'll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy.

Without persistence, you will be defeated even before you start. With persistence you will win.

No man is ever whipped, until he quits— in his own mind.

I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say 'no' when I ask them to buy insurance.