"Embrace the thing you fear most and break it down into the smallest manageable parts and conquer one step at a time. This will create momentum. Momentum feeds the next and allows you to break through your fears, your dramas, your bad habits and patterns until you are able to uncover your true self that is perfection at its core." Jim Donovan

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." Douglas MacArthur

"Just keep going--no feeling is final." Rainer Maria Rilke

"All human power is a compound of time and patience." Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

"If you hang in there, you will get somewhere." Chuck Close

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." Coco Chanel

"Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." Josh Billings

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." Buddhist proverb

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out." E. Joseph Cossman

"Diligence is the mother of good luck." Benjamin Franklin

"But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." Randy Pausch The Last Lecture

"Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor." Leonardo da Vinci

"The Great Way has no gate. There are a thousand paths to it." Wu-men

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." Hal Borland, Countryman: A Summary of Belief

“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.” Henri Matisse

"If I don't practice for one day, I know it; if I don't practice for two days, the critics know it; if I don't practice for three days, the audience knows it." Ignace Paderewski

“In the battle between the river and the rock, the river will always win. Not through strength but by persistence.” Confucius

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” Thomas Edison

“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” Malcolm Forbes

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” Thomas Carlyle

“The power to hold on in spite of everything, the power to endure—this is the winner's quality. Persistence is the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up—to push on in the face of great difficulty, knowing that victory can be yours. Persistence means taking pains to overcome every obstacle, and to do what's necessary to reach your goals.” Wynn Davis.

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” Confucius

“Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk.” Charan Singh, mystic (1916-1990)

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” Chinese Proverb

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.” Robert Service, writer (1874-1958)

“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” George-Louis DeBuffon