Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
If I persist long enough I will win.
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.
When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather
It took eight years for DDP Yoga to become an overnight sensation.
I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be talented. I just had to be persistent.
Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.
Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.
God grants victory to perseverance.
It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.
J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
