· I will persist until I succeed. I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind should infect me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep mine eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where
I will persist until I succeed. I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such
words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable,
hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind
should infect me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles
at my feet and keep mine eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass
grows.
