The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under read more

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

How long should you try? Until.

How long should you try? Until.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a read more

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is read more

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.

Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.

Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

But Hercules himself must yield to odds;
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hews down read more

But Hercules himself must yield to odds;
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.