I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.

I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd, I am a lion and I refuse to walk, to talk, to sleep with the sheep.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

I will persist until I succeed.

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey not near the beginning, and it is not given unto me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal.

Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road.

Never will I know how close it lies unless I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another and yet another.

In truth one step at a time is not that difficult.

Excerpt from " The Greatest Salesman in the World" by: Og Mandino