When the world says, "Give up,"Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield You can not kill something that does not want to die You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of me Fall seven times, stand up eight Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind