[00:11.12]Napoleon declared, “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
[00:16.26]Upon careful study we find perseverance depends upon three things - purpose,
[00:22.14]will, and enthusiasm. He who has a purpose is always concentrating his forces.
[00:29.87]By the will, the hope and the plan are prevented from evaporating into dreams.
[00:35.65]Enthusiasm keeps the interest up, and makes the obstacles seem small.
[00:41.38]Life is in a sense a battle. The man who thinks to get on by mere smartness and by idling meets failure at last.
[00:51.16]Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls,
[00:55.17]and holds the key to those treasure-houses of knowledge from which
[00:59.27]the world has drawn its wealth both of wisdom and of moral worth.
[01:05.25]Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
[01:09.83]They seize upon whatever is at hand, work out their problem,
[01:13.97]and master the situation.
[01:16.56]The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given to him.
[01:23.50]This is success and there is no other.
[01:26.95]One of the important lessons of life is to learn how to get victory out of defeat.
[01:32.26]It takes courage and stamina, when mortified by humiliating disaster,
[01:37.68]to seek in the ruins the elements of future conquest.
[01:41.75]Yet this measures the difference between those who succeed and those who fail.
[01:47.32]We cannot measure a man by his failures. We must know what use he makes of them.
[01:53.75]The man who has not fought his way upward and does not bear the scar of desperate conflict
[01:59.81]does not know the highest meaning of success.
