1. If you don’t accumulate steps, you can’t reach a thousand miles; if you don’t accumulate small streams, you can’t become a river. ——Xunzi 2. Don’t lose confidence, as long as you persevere, you will eventually achieve results. ——Qian Xuesen 3. A will that does not make any decisions is not a realistic will; people without character never make decisions. ——Hegel 4. Success does not depend on the size of your strength, but on how long you can persist. ——Johnson 5. A discoverer, especially a fledgling young discoverer, needs courage to ignore the indifference and suspicion of others, to persist in his will to discover, and to continue his research. ——Beveridge