Determination: It takes determination to get to the top, but more to remain there.
Industry can do anything that genius can do and many things that it cannot.
It certainly pays to advertise—there are twenty-six mountains in Colorado that are higher than Pike’s Peak.
You can’t get anywhere unless you start.
Good gardening is largely a matter of taking pains—mostly in the small of the back.
There’s no defeat except in no longer trying.
God doesn’t ask you to be the best—only to do your best.
Learn to harness your handicaps.
There is more to be gained by being first than fast.
Not to be out-and-out for Christ is to be down-and-out.
King Saul thought Goliath was too big to fight—David thought he was too big to miss.
Have the courage to let go of the things not worth sticking to.
Aim for perfection—half right is always half wrong.
God is more ready to forgive the blotted page of endeavor than the blank page of giving up.
If you cannot be a runner-up, try not to be a runner down.
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on—it’s going on when you don’t have the strength.
Quitters in the church are like motors—they sputter before they miss and miss before they quit.
The Golden Rule may be old, but it hasn’t been used enough to look worn.
If you don’t climb the mountain you can’t see the view.
Every day something is being done that couldn’t be done.
Be bold in what you stand for, but be careful what you fall for.
The hardest thing about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Any dead fish can float downstream—it takes a live fish to swim against the current.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.
When the door is shut, we are bidden to knock.
He who doesn’t hope to win has already lost.
Persistence will give you power to prevail over all problems.
When something can’t be done, watch someone do it.
A quitter never wins—a winner never quits.
Most trouble is caused by too much bone in the head and not enough in the back.
If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. No one would have remembered him either.
Trying times are no time to quit trying.
The elevator to success is not running; you must climb the stairs.
Do the best you can—angels can do no more.
Great things are little things done with a desire to please God.
If you put heart into what you do, it will put heart into you.
Men seldom drift to their desired haven; they usually sail to it against most contrary winds.
A man without courage is like a knife without an edge.
If Caleb had asked Joshua for a valley instead of a mountain, who would be impressed?
The man who falls down gets up a lot quicker than the man who lies down.
Lincoln was not great because he lived in a log cabin but because he was able to get out of the cabin.
An ounce of determination is worth a ton of procrastination.
Curious people ask questions—determined people find answers.
Often it takes as much courage to resist as it does to go ahead.
Accept the circumstances, then seek to overcome them.
The shadows are behind you if you walk toward the light.
Today is not won by old victories nor lost by old defeats.
The best time to hold on is when you reach the place where the average person gives up.
The man who is not strong against anything is usually not strong for anything.
Determination: Success is biting off more than you can chew and chewing it.
It is not wrong when you are knocked down in life—but it is wrong when you fail to get up.
Some people have a giant brain but a midget’s backbone.
A competitor is a guy who goes into a revolving door behind you and comes out ahead of you.
Discouragement is faith in the devil.
If the door to success is marked pull and still won’t open, ignore the sign and push.
In most cases, IQ is less important to a person’s education than I will.
The wise man doesn’t expect to find life worth living; he makes it that way.
Don’t be content by being average. Being average means you are as near to the bottom as you are to the top.
It takes courage to stand up and be counted, but it takes more courage to keep standing.
Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done.
One of the greatest pleasures in life is doing what people say you can’t.
The trouble with most of us in trying times is that we quit trying.
It takes courage to stand up and speak as well as to sit down and listen.
The only good luck any great man ever had was being born with ability and determination to overcome bad luck.