Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Practical dreamers do not quit.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.