Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~Charles F. Kettering

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

...I want to know if you can live with failureyours and mineand still stand at the edge of the lakeand shout to the silver of the full moon,"Yes."...~© Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Invitation, http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather