"It's dogged as does it."—Yorkshire Proverb.
"One talent with a will behind it will accomplish more than ten without it, as a thimbleful of powder in a rifle, the bore of whose barrel will give it direction, will do greater execution than a carload burned in the open air."—O.S. Marden.
"Will may not endow man with talents or capacities; but it does one very important matter—it enables him to make the best, the very best, of his powers."—Fothergill.
"Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains.
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as down remains."
"Don't flinch; don't foul; but hit the line hard."—Roosevelt.
"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be."