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.

I have also discovered that there comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit.

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit

You have been disappointed, you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made-they are assets of incomparable value.

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.

No man is ever whipped, until he QUITS

Do not expect troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. Remember that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive." The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves.

Millions of children have had their imagination dwarfed and retarded by parents who removed as much as possible of the urge of necessity. By "making it easy" for your child you may be depriving the world of a genius. Bear in mind the fact that most of the progress that man has made came as the result of bitter, biting NECESSITY!

The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.