Listen to episode 491 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for Patience & Perseverance. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you enjoy our podcast, you can help spread the word by leaving us a review at the iTunes store, because the more great reviews we get the more easily it is for others to discover us. Plus I always love reading how this podcast has had a positive effect on you. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895. If success were possible only to women and men of great talents, then there would be little success in the world. It has been rightly said that talent is just as much the ability to stick to a thing, as the aptitude to do it better than another. Ulysses S. Grant once said, "I will fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." This statement of General Grant doesn’t indicate so much a man of genius, but rather a man of indomitable perseverance, a perseverance to which he owed all his success. The key to his character was tenacity. The soldier who begins the battle in doubt is half beaten in advance. The entrepreneur who loses heart after one failure is a fool to have even started. There is a great deal in good preparation, but there is a great deal more in heroic perseverance.