"Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Success Tags: lowly, perseverance, virtue More From Ambrose Bierce "Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead." "Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured." "Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent." More In Success "I’m not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don’t."― Jose Mourinho "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."― Benjamin Franklin "The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don’t know they are."― Kathy Griffin