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With tireless energy and eager zeal, colored women have, since their emancipation, been continuously prosecuting the work of educating and elevating their race, as though upon themselves alone devolved the accomplishment of this great task.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.

Courage may be displayed in everyday life as well as in historic fields of action.

Energy of temperament, with a moderate degree of wisdom, will carry a man further than any amount of intellect without it.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.

In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

Patience lies at the root of all pleasures, as well as of all powers.

The mere drudgery undergone by some men in carrying on their undertakings has been something extraordinary, but the drudgery they regarded as the price of success.

The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming

Genius is 1 per cent. inspiration and 99 per cent. perspiration.

When I hear some of my young friends complain of want of sympathy and encouragement, I am inclined to think that my naval life was not the least valuable part of my education.

I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.

Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.

We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.