Assume your own position.

Put potatoes in a cart, over a rough road, and the small ones go to the bottom." "Never depend upon your genius," said John Ruskin, in the words of Joshua Reynolds; "if you have talent, industry will improve it; if you have none, industry will supply the deficiency." "The only merit to which I lay claim," said Hugh Miller, "is that of patient research--a merit in which whoever wills may rival or surpass me; and this humble faculty of patience when rightly developed may lead to more extraordinary development of ideas than even genius itself." Titian, the greatest master of color the world has seen, used to say: "White, red and black, these are all the colors that a painter needs, but he must know how to use them." It took fifty years of constant, hard practice to bring him to his full mastery.
"How much grows everywhere if we do but wait!" exclaims Carlyle.

"Not a difficulty but can transfigure itself into a triumph; not even a deformity, but if our own soul have imprinted worth on it, will grow dear to us." Persistency is characteristic of all men who have accomplished anything great.

They may lack in some other particular, have many weaknesses, or eccentricities, but the quality of persistence is never absent in a successful man.

No matter what opposition he meets or what discouragements overtake him, he is always persistent.