Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
If you rest, you rust.
Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.
For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.
If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
You can have results or excuses. Not both.
Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.