Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution after the
enthusiasm with which the resolution was made has passed. It is not
what you learn,or the ideas you have that are decisive for your future. It is whether or
not you can put your head down and discipline yourself to pay the
price, over and over, until you finally obtain your objective.

Perhaps your greatest asset is simply your ability to keep at it doggedly longer
than anyone else.

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is
full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge, United States…[Read more]