"In all difficulties advance and will, for within you is a power, a living force, which the more you trust and learn to use will annihilate the opposition of matter." "The star of the unconquered will, It rises in my breast, Serene and resolute and still, And calm and self-possessed. "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, 'Thou must!' The youth replies, 'I can!'" "The longer I live, the more certain I am that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy,--invincible determination,--a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it."--_Buxton._ "The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene. "You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word environment, But spirit scorns it and is free. "It masters time, it conquers space, It cows that boastful trickster, chance, And bids the tyrant circumstance Uncrown and fill a servant's place." "Resolve is what makes a man manifest; not puny resolve, not crude determinations, not errant purpose, but that strong and indefatigable will which treads down difficulties and danger as a boy treads down the heaving frost lands of winter, which kindles his eye and brain with a proud pulse beat toward the unattainable. Will makes men giants."--_Donald G. Mitchell._ "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate Can circumvent, or hinder, or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing, will alone is great; All things give way before it soon or late. What obstacle can stay the mighty force Of the sea-seeking river in its course, Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait? Each well-born soul must win what it deserves. Let the fools prate of luck. The fortunate Is he whose earnest purpose never swerves, Whose slightest action, or inaction, Serves the one great aim. Why, even death itself Stands still and waits an hour sometimes For such a will." --_Ella Wheeler Wilcox._ "I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment." --_Lord Beaconsfield._ "A passionate desire and an unwearied will can perform impossibilities, or what may seem to be such to the cold and feeble."--_Sir John Simpson._