Some critics will write "Maya Angelou is a natural writer"--which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
- Maya Angelou

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.- Abraham Lincoln

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
– William James

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong

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

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
-Barack Obama

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
- Kin Hubbard

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
- Sydney Harris

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
- Plutarch

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
- Barack Obama