Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!