Perseverance

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Horace

If one is a master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

The best place to succeed it where you are with what you have.

Charles Schwab

I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

Myrlie Evers

Talk does not cook rice.

Chinese Proverb

Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture.  It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

Vaclav Havel

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is no ‘try.’ Do or do not.

Yoda, Jedi Master

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

It is not the light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.  We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglass, 1852

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe is just.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome in trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

The future is not completely beyond our control.  It is the work of our own hands.

Robert F. Kennedy

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

Louisa May Alcott

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Frederick Douglass

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.

Henry Ford

We will either find a way, or make one.

Hannibal

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

Henry Ford

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Unknown

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Gary Player

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

The prettier the flower, the farther from the path.

Into the Woods

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickenson

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Gloria Gaither