If you can survive and win the battle over other millions of semen deposited alongside with you in your mother's womb, tell me why you cannot win the battle over challenges, difficulties and poverty?...

Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet

God's perspectives require persistence. To have God's perspective in the world we live in requires persistence.

You're like that single wild flower that grows from the crack in the pavement: miraculous growth with no water source or fertile soil. A person walking by would step around that flower to avoid...

Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it's impossible to persevere.

If it doesn't open, it's not your door

Life is only delaying defeat.

Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay.

Be one of those rare people who just don't know how to quit.

So, remember that our goals are reached by how we prepare and train in the many months before crunch time. Train right, and the summit or gold medal will be the inevitable culmination of your...

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success.

And maybe there is greatness waiting for you - if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility.

Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be discovered by seeking.

Leave to a Thark his head and one hand and he may yet conquer.

They never asked, I kept offering.

For dreams that never die.

Well, nobody can say that this siege is boring.

There was a relentless forward motion to the man. The universe might knock him down over and over again, but unless he was dead, he'd just keep getting up and shuffling ahead toward his goal. Holden...

And maybe it's like that with every important aspect of your life. Whatever it is you are pursuing, whatever it is you are seeking, whatever it is you are creating, be careful not to quit too soon.

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...

Higher and higher he climbed. His strength came from somewhere deep inside himself and also seemed to come from the outside as well. After focusing on Big Thumb for so long, it was as if the rock had...

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose rejection count is in the triple digits. Never give up. Never, never,...

Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes with that new-style Scanran fertilizer.

The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write—and many of the people who do write—get lost.