I will persist until I succeed
I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered unto this world in defeat,
nor does failure course in my veins.
I am not a sheep
waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.
I am a lion
and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.
I will hear not those who weep and complain,
for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep.
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed.
~ Og Mandino