Persistance

"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."

-Richard M DeVos, Founder of Amway, now known as Alticor

It may take 71 times, or 72 or 112, but the wonderful thing about
life is that as long as we keep getting up, dusting ourselves off
and starting all over again, as long as we persist in persisting
and make up our minds that nothing will stop us -- as long as we do
that -- nothing will. We win by relentlessly molding ourselves
through all those ups and downs into the winners we were born to be.

-Kate Nowak