Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis

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

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. – Thomas Foxwell Buxton

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.