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Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...
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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
