Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.
Let the fools prate of luck. The fortunate
Is he whose earnest purpose never swerves,
Whose slightest action, or inaction,
Serves the one great aim. Why, even death itself
Stands still and waits an hour sometimes
For such a will."
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
"I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."—Lord Beaconsfield.
"A passionate desire and an unwearied will can perform impossibilities, or what may seem to be such to the cold and feeble."—Sir John Simpson.