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

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. – Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, “I returned, and saw under th