Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

—Dr A.B. Meldrum

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something. —Randy Pausch

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

Diamonds are only chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs, you see.                       —Minnie Richard Smith

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

—Henry Ward Beecher

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

—Tom Hopkins

I’d look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

—Jacob A. Riis

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached at an angle.        —Andre Gide

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

—Vince Lombardi

Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.             —Dag Hammerskjold

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.             —Winston Churchill

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.  — Albert Einstein

What keeps you going isn’t some fine destination but just the road you’re on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

—Barbara Kingsolver

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.  — Albert Einstein

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt