“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

“Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.”

“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”

“What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.”

“That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.”

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”

“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”