“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
Calvin Coolidge
...not a quote...but some lines in a song:
Once there was a path and girl with chestnut hair,And you passed the summer picking all of the berries that grew there.There were times she was a woman, there were times she was just a child,And you held her in the shadow where the raspberries grow wild.And you climbed the twilight mountains, and you sang about the view,And ev'erywhere you wandered, love seemed to go along with you.
-L. Cohen-