Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

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.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which
grow out of the dust of the earth; read more

The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which
grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope
of man.

But Hercules himself must yield to odds;
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hews down read more

But Hercules himself must yield to odds;
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers read more

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.