Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge
http://www2.byui.edu/Presentations/Transcripts/Devotionals/2011_11_15_Zivic.htm BYU Idaho Devotional Elder Claudio D. Zivic First Quorum of the Seventy
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. -Thomas Fowell Buxton