If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort

Dave Weinbaum

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Dale Carnegie

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Garth Brooks

Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.

Funmi Wale-Adegbite

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung

J.C Penney

Of all great works, nine-tenths must be drudgery. Edison put it at 99%. Edmund Burke worked 22 hours at one stretch on one speech … pure drudgery.
Kepler filled 600 pages with figures to learn the skies - all drudgery. Genius and talents may start great projects, but only drudgery can finish them

Russell Conwell