PERSEVERANCE IS PERSISTENCE IN SELF-DISCIPLINE

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success, they give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance and faith.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede victory. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep on going. Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now - the absolute choice to greatness and the vehicle to personal and financial freedom!

True perseverance is not forced. People who are fired up don't have to push themselves to persevere. When you are excited about what you are doing, you don't have to convince yourself to "stick-to-it". You have to convince yourself not to. It's not something you have to do, it's something you want to do. With passion as a base, perseverance comes naturally.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the "impossible" , we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible ... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

You can become whoever you want to become in your life. You have to begin with the end in mind. You must everyday and every time reflect onto your mind the successful person you want to become in your life. By repeatedly doing that, your state of mind will be elevated onto a manifestation that would allow the creation of a powerful magnetic force in you thereby attracting all the positive people towards you enabling you to accomplish your dream in life.

You can do it gradually - day by day and play by play - if you want to do it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of time. Big shots are only little shots that keep shooting. Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.

Keep on keeping on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heed of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are no easy victories? One is a tough-minded recognition that the fight for a better world is a long one.

PERSEVERANCE IS PERSISTENCE IN SELF-DISCIPLINE.

YOU AND ONLY YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN SUCCESS!

IT'S ALL IN YOUR STATE OF MIND!