Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is read more

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o'er read more

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.