Native American Wisdom on Perseverance
You can’t truly succeed without perseverance. If you’ve easily accomplished many goals, you are indeed fortunate. But as my grandfather would often say, life isn’t worth living unless you are forced to defend it now and then. Therefore you haven’t truly tasted success unless you’ve picked yourself up after failure has knocked you down, as many times as it takes, until you accomplish what you’ve set out to do.
~Joseph M. Marshall III
Source: The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living by Joseph M. Marshall III
